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...Bruins opened up a 65-45 lead following a 12-4 spurt midway through the second stanza. Though Harvard chipped away at the difference, things never seemed to click. Brown fought back every Crimson attack, and the breaks just didn't go Harvard...
...Goodman, like other specialists, points to what seems an even greater reason for the field's spurt in popularity: the extraordinarily lucrative possibilities of employment in private industry. Starting salaries for qualified computer scientists in the private sector range...
...overall, 4-5 in the Ivies) stumbled into Briggs after a narrow loss to Dartmouth at Hanover the night before. Harvard captured the lead with a seven-point spurt at the end of the first half, and it took Cornell 17 minutes of the second half to retake the lead...
...months. When that happens, the Soviet controllers radio commands that explode the satellite into nuclear and nonnuclear components. The nonnuclear parts are allowed to sink back into the atmosphere, where most of the metal burns up in the frictional heat of reentry. The reactor is lifted with one last spurt of rocket fuel to an altitude of 500 to 600 miles, where it can drift safely for hundreds of years...
Dartmouth later cut the margin to three, but with just four minutes left the cagers mounted an 8-0 spurt to put the contest out of reach...