Word: slash
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...shooting guards are a dangerous lot. The Big Green’s highest scorers are Leon Pattman (11.3 ppg) and Mike Lang (10.3), both of whom play the two guard.Pattman, who missed virtually all of last season after earning league Rookie of the Year honors in 2004, likes to slash to the hoop for buckets, while Lang is more of an outside shooter. In Dartmouth’s win over Army on Wednesday, Lang nailed 5-of-7 from downtown and scored 17 points, and he scored 24 against Harvard in a 76-74 loss in Cambridge last year...
...finally come of age in the U.S., they were probably set straight in October when Wal-Mart, the world's leading corporate bad guy in the eyes of a staggering range of social activists, claimed it had caught the bug. The $288 billion behemoth announced it would slash solid waste and greenhouse-gas emissions, invest $500 million a year in energy efficiency and offer better medical benefits to its 1.2 million U.S. employees. "We are going to do well by doing good," said CEO Lee Scott...
...sooner the better, considering the misery. The miners' slums have become cauldrons of drugs and prostitution in recent years. Sewage trickles through the unpaved streets. Houses are often built of nothing sturdier than flattened gasoline drums, and the surrounding terrain looks moonscaped from the slash-and-burn deforestation. Chvez has begun to organize the miners into some 3,000 government-backed cooperatives, which would be given legal access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through...
...terms of success but also in position. His freshmen year in high school, Stehle was a 5’10 point guard. Although now at 6’8 he plays the four, he has not lost the skills he acquired while playing the point. His ability to slash to the rim and create down low led to many easy baskets for himself and his teammates—Stehle finished second on the team last year with 70 assists...
...Mike has proven to be more than adequate at point guard for us, but it’s not his natural position,” Sullivan says. “We recruited Mike to be a small forward, rebound, slash [to the hoop...