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Tonight, Harvard takes on Princeton, who runs a four-corner, slowdown offense. To beat a team like that, one has to keep composure, to not get down if the other shooters get hot, and above all, to play defense...
...working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
Cable is still a superb pipeline for television and interactive services, but now that consumers can find more avenues of distribution, such as direct satellite broadcasting and wireless cable, it is losing some of its allure. Some cable analysts are actually calling for a slowdown in capital spending, saying that the telephone companies' efforts to bring video to the home are going so badly that cable companies can upgrade more slowly, charge the content providers more to get on the pipeline and thus raise revenues dramatically...
...weight loss: his consumption of chopped salads and grilled vegetables instead of French fries and pasta. If Ressner was going to be a guinea pig, why not go whole hog? Give us a week-by-week report on his progress on Redux, including the inevitable weight-loss slowdown and frustration. Then record his experiences post-Redux: tracking his dying brain cells (as was mentioned in the main article) and gradually regaining his lost weight, plus 10 lbs. (as usually happens to any dieter). As it stands, most readers will remember only that Ressner lost 5 lbs. in a week...
...additional benefit of ending welfare as we know it will be the slowdown of illegal immigration. The jobs that attract poor illegals will in the future be filled by people who are at present welfare recipients. MICHAEL LINSAY South Euclid, Ohio...