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With the Black Bears scrambling to knot the score, Harvard was forced into a defensive posture, desperately hoping to stave off its rejuvenated opponent until the final buzzer...
...converted on just one field goal in the final 3:55, then turned the ball over three times in the final 2:59—on 22 occasions overall, many times on simple traveling violations—rendering its attempts to protect its dwindling lead, or at least stave off the Huskies’ push, increasingly difficult...
...zone, troops use a variety of means to try to stave off the aftershocks of trauma. Harding dealt with his anxieties by talking to other members of his company about them. Every time the events of that day ran though his mind, he said a prayer. He was reassured by visits from the battalion chaplain, who told the Marines to honor Halverson and their own good fortune by carrying...
television, according to the testimony of top executives. In 1987, it spent €130 million on a station called Odeon TV that it hoped to build into Italy's third major network, but which collapsed after three years. To stave off bankruptcy, Tanzi engineered a so-called reverse merger, under which it sold itself to a dormant holding company already listed on the Milan stock exchange. The combined firm then raised about €150 million from outside investors. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990, and plug some of the gaps in its accounts; at the time...
ANALYSIS: Off-season acquisitions have done little to improve Brown’s lackluster offense, which again figures to place among the conference’s worst. Sophomore forward Brian Ihnacak, who netted 10 goals and 20 assists last year, is perhaps the only skater talented enough to stave off that almost inevitable outcome. Of course, the Bears did quite well with no scoring last year. So all they need to maintain their position in the ECAC’s upper echelon is replace Hobey Baker finalist netminder Yann Danis. That?...