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...junior stalwart played one series at the beginning of the second quarter as well but was only on the field for a couple of minutes...
Achieving that level and maintaining it will depend heavily on the defense that Shoop has carefully pieced together from several other stalwart defenses...
Veronica Guerin emerges under unusual auspices. Its producer is ubiquitous uber-mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, its director Joel Schumacher, a Hollywood stalwart whose work ranges from grit (Tigerland) to glitz (Batman & Robin). Screenwriters Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donaghue are also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan...
Last Saturday’s shutout was just as impressive—for a different reason, though. Cornell was able to move the football and penetrate deep into the Crimson’s half. But every time it did, the stalwart Harvard defense found a way to thwart the Big Red charge...
...tech industry that hasn't rebounded this summer: satellites. In July Boeing booked a $1.1 billion charge against earnings for its scandal-marred military business, and former stalwart Loral Space & Communications filed for bankruptcy. Then in August a launch disaster in Brazil killed 21 technicians and jeopardized that country's program. "Unquestionably, the commercial-satellite market is depressed right now," says Chris Mecray, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. From 1996 to 1998, satellite sales grew 49.4%, but they have shrunk 2.4% in the past four years. Worse, hurt by the telecom bust and tough export rules, U.S. market share...