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Last year, however, the Knicks fought back and smashed the Celtics by more than 20 points in the second game and went on to win the series in seven games. This year, the Celts should be able to stave off any similar Knick surge...
With 200 meters to go Yale began to move on Radcliffe. The Bulldogs upped their cadence and began closing the gap as the Radcliffe crew refused to sprint, cautiously keeping its 34 cadence. However, it was a case of too little too late as Radcliffe managed to stave off the charging Elis and escape with a two-seat victory margin...
...exercise of power? Would he have gotten appointments as a teaching assistant in Expository Writing or as a resident tutor in Eliot House if he were put on an equal footing with the hundreds of other job-seeking graduate students who look for such positions as ways to stave off mounting expenses and declining scholarships...
...Ujifusa said he did not think the chances for a conviction in the Senate were good. A coalition of conservative southern Democrats and western Republicans could probably muster enough votes to stave off the two-thirds majority needed to convict a president and remove him from office, he said...
Cornell, sole owner of the Ivy cellar position and an 87-36 loser to Penn a week ago, hung on in the final half, though, repeatedly whittling the Harvard lead to 12 points to stave off the expected Crimson romp...