Word: slipping
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...season had an overall record of 2-8-2, won five straight conference games just to make it to the Northeast Conference tournament, and upset the top two seeds en route to winning the tournament and qualifying for NCAA’s, was not about to let the game slip away...
...would be the last time Harvard shared the lead. The Stags then went on a 10-2 run to take a 47-39 lead with 9:26 to go.“We had a good high-energy run in the second half, and we kind of let it slip through our fingers and went flat again,” Rollins said. “That’s when we really needed to start pushing it up the court, [getting] quicker outlets on the forwards’ part.”Fairfield called a momentum-deflating time...
...they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything of roughly the right size and smell. In the end, the engineers came up with little wheeled robots shaped like matchboxes and perfumed with eau de roach...
...company invited 150 analysts to a seminar in Miami last October that was the highlight of its investor-relations campaign. But on the evening before the seminar started, Brabeck let slip over drinks that Nestle had an option to acquire the French cosmetics company L'Oreal in 2004. When the markets opened the next morning, Nestle stock tumbled on fears about what such an acquisition would do to its already growing debt. Brabeck kicked off the seminar with an angry lecture, complaining that his remarks had been misinterpreted and reading aloud extracts from the option agreement with L'Oreal...
...women’s volleyball team wrapped up its season this weekend by splitting a pair of Ivy League home games at Lavieties Pavilion. The Crimson was victorious Friday against Columbia before letting a 2-0 lead slip away Saturday against Cornell. Harvard (8-18) finishes the season in seventh place with a 3-11 league record, ahead of only winless Columbia. Princeton claimed the Ivy League title and capped off a perfect season with a 3-1 victory Saturday over Yale. CORNELL 3, HARVARD 2 The Crimson looked poised to finish its season strong after getting...