Word: slump
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...captain Hayley Bock said. “We’re going to try to beat them no matter what field we’re on.”Harvard is coming off an impressive weekend at Brown, where the offense broke out of a persistent slump in a big way, scoring 37 runs as the Crimson took three of four from the Bears. Co-captain Bailey Vertovez led the offensive resurgence, batting an incredible .692 last week with a .765 on-base percentage, six runs scored, six RBI and four doubles en route to being honored...
...knew we were hitting the ball, and we knew that we had to keep doing what we were doing and we weren’t going to let [Saturday’s] split get us down. We’ve been working hard to get out of our hitting slump and it just really paid off this past weekend.” Shaw got the action going when she singled to first. She was able to score off a Francis double and a single by junior Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor. Harvard’s biggest...
...Steel Group of China purchased a $771 million stake in the Australian iron-ore exporter Fortescue Metals Group. And China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, offered to pay $1.2 billion in cash for Australia-based Oz Minerals, the world's second largest zinc miner. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...
Local contractor Wayne Mayo, 54, has watched this long slump up close. Like many other people in St. Helens, he used to work in the timber industry, as a lumber broker. But his more recent turn, as a general contractor, brought him face-to-face with an economic force he felt he could influence: illegal immigration. Although St. Helens has a relatively small Hispanic community - some legal, some illegal - the town is just 30 miles (about 50 km) from major population centers like Portland and Beaverton, close enough that out-of-town contractors with crews of underpaid, underdocumented construction workers...
...We’re in an offensive slump, and we need to pull ourselves out,” Allard said. “We’ve been changing up the lineup, doing more drills in practice, attacking and trying to improve. Working on our confidence...