Word: stretch
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...stretch of the imagination believe, that our leading public universities—which have been so critical for so long to the nation’s scientific enterprise—should somehow cede the field to well-endowed private institutions,” she wrote...
What researchers found was a stretch of a few hundred thousand years during which foraminifera shells were unusually rich in oxygen-18, suggesting the presence of glaciers. Though changes in ocean temperature can also alter the oxygen balance, sea-bottom temperatures don't vary much no matter what's happening up top, yet the bottom-dwelling foraminifera still exhibited an oxygen imbalance, implying that the ice effect was more likely. Nobody can explain how you can have glaciers in a superhot world. But then, nobody can really explain how the world got quite that hot in the first place...
...shot. The visitors wouldn’t go away and cut the lead down to six at 44-38 with 14:45 remaining off a bank-shot by guard Kyle Roemer, but the home team responded with an 11-0 run. Housman hit two free throws to start the stretch, then sophomore guard Dan McGeary stole a pass and went in for a fast-break lay-up. Unger followed with a long jumper, then Lin drove to the basket for a lay-up and a foul. He missed the free throw, but Harvard would come back as Housman...
...dissident bloggers, and Google and Microsoft have been accused of the same collusion, but students still favor those companies because they are hip,” he says.SUBPRIME PUBLICITYThe major banks have also received negative attention as a result of this summer’s subprime crisis, an embarrassing stretch for Wall Street firms in which billions of dollars in writedowns were announced and thousands of employees were laid off.But students say that the media blitz did not alter their opinions of the major banks during their job hunt.“[Merrill Lynch CEO] Stan O’Neal?...
...some momentum, it was by looking inside to Rollins, the team’s best player on the night. Rollins, who scored 16 of her game-high 18 points in the second half, refused to let Dartmouth pull away, making big basket after big basket down the stretch. “They knew we were going in to her and she still found a way to make it happen,” Delaney-Smith said of Rollins. On a night when Hallion and junior Niki Finelli shot a combined 2-for-15, it was Rollins’ strong post presence...