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...women’s lacrosse team made sure its opponent never left the doghouse yesterday afternoon, taking down Connecticut, 14-12, in a non-league matchup. The Crimson (3-3, 0-1 Ivy) nearly blew a five-goal halftime lead, but in the end it did just enough to stave off a late charge by the winless Huskies (0-8).“We came out strong, but we didn’t finish the way that we wanted to,” senior Kaitlin Martin said. “We want to be the team that puts them away...
...bill includes a proposed 19-cent increase to the state gas tax that would help stave off the MBTA’s projected $161 million deficit in the next fiscal year...
...stave off an eruption. How do you measure success and failure? First, we want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling...
...critical in the first half, contributing six to a 15-point stretch that distanced Harvard from the Quakers. Her major point contribution came in the second half when she stepped up again to stave off Penn. Markley made two shots late in the fourth quarter that denied the Quakers any possibility for a comeback...
...antiquity rarely matched the heroism of its myths - it was ugly, nasty and desperate. To stave off a Roman siege in A.D. 189, the defenders of the Greek city of Ambracia built a complex flamethrower that coughed out smoking chicken feathers. At Themiscrya, another stubborn Greek outpost, Romans tunneling beneath the city contended with not only a charge of wild beasts but also a barrage of hives swarming with bees - a rather direct approach to biological warfare...