Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme of miscues and botched chances haunted the Harvard men's soccer team like a hellish takeoff of This Is Your Season during the Crimson's 3-2 seesaw defeat to 10th-ranked Dartmouth here on Chase Field last Saturday...
...incongruous to exalt Iraq's military threat while disparaging the competence of the Iraqis to defend their own land. The inability of either side to prevail in eight years of seesaw battles across the Iraqi-Iranian border supports the claim of military strategists that a 3-to-1 advantage is necessary for invaders. Martyrdom among devout Muslims must also be considered...
Silverado's officers had thrown prudent banking practices to the wind, and before long the S&L was locked into a constant seesaw battle with regulators. Says a former Silverado executive: "They began playing musical chairs with their auditors, and all kinds of things were going on between the federal regulators and management because of the dubious appraisals on property. Silverado would lend a developer $10 million, plus the money he needed to pay the interest on the loan, and then when the developer came back in a year after repaying nothing, they would roll the whole loan over...
Such were the buzzwords for the Harvard and University of New Hampshire women's soccer teams following their 2-2 seesaw decision yesterday at blustery Ohiri Field...