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...will come down hard--and I do mean very hard--on any abuse of this option. We will not allow a few bad apples to spoil the sauce for the rest," he said...
...laxmen were then able to string together four straight goals: suddenly it seemed that they were going to spoil Adelphi's chances for post-season play...
...sore spot as well. The oil-patch states of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana have been so severely affected that their troubles could spoil the rest of the country's party, at least in the short run. Bankruptcies and layoffs plague the oil business and nearly every industry connected with it. Though the Labor Department announced last week that U.S. unemployment dipped to 7.2% in March, down a notch from 7.3% in February, the jobless rate has stayed unexpectedly high at least partly because of the oil- patch slump. Unemployment in Louisiana has reached...
...while Vermont isn't the caliber of Providence or UNH, it did manage a late goal to spoil Harvard netminder Jennifer White's shutout...
...fourth voice (a "recurrent scream of disorder," writes Sullivan), Katharine Andrews does very little to endow her part with the quirky originality in tone and movement with which the other performances spoil...