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...Rhode Island (5-1) answered with an 11-0 spurt, scoring easy basket after easy basket in transition. Butler (22 points, 14 rebounds) stemmed the tide with a nice inside move, but the Rams finished the half strong to take a 28-25 lead going into the locker rooms...
Robert S. Bourne, a Wayland gardener, remembersan earlier warm spurt in December of 1990 and saidhe believes that a warming trend exists...
...student asks you to analyze and describe the mythic aspects of an L.L. Bean ad. A first-year jumps up and starts to shout: "The frontier, Daniel Boone, Emerson, mythic contradictions, Poe as the anti-mother, Freud, Oedipus, Daniel Cooper..." He bites his tongue off and blood begins to spurt out of his mouth...
...would also clobber the bond market, to which mutual-fund buyers have flocked as well. Bonds took off on a powerful rally last November that has pushed long-term yields to their lowest level in 20 years (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). A spurt in interest rates would have the opposite effect, halting the boom and sending bond prices spiraling down...
Leading 5-2 heading into the second half, Harvard knew that the key to victory would come from its attack, while delivered eight goals, two in each quarter, to hold off a six-goal spurt by an Adelphi team in the midst of its worst season in years...