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Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 couldn’t stave off similar notions...
...Tigers—which haven’t won a Friday night Ivy game all season—can’t get past Columbia in New York tomorrow night, Princeton would travel to Ithaca needing a win to stave off its first ever below-.500 finish in the Ivy League...
Thus far, fears of a "hard landing" for China's economy appear to have been overblown. The Chinese government has taken measures to curb some of the wilder excesses, tightening conditions on some bank loans and raising interest rates to stave off inflation. But the government clearly has its limits. There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
...while Harvard’s penalty kill units had heretofore struggled, Friday night saw the Crimson quartets stave off every last Engineer rush...
Harvard opened up a 27-25 lead, but Johnson & Wales closed the gap to pull even at 27. An unforced error by the Wildcats gave the Crimson a game point at 29-27. Junior outside hitter Brandon Blanchet contributed a block, which allowed Johnson & Wales to stave off the first. But senior outside hitter Juan Ramos came through with a kill to give Harvard the first game...