Word: stretch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...typical Harvard-Yale fashion, the Crimson soon saw its lead diminish. In a 10-minute stretch, Yale scored three-straight goals to tie up the game with 17:57 left of play...
...really wanted to take one point at a time.”Harvard jumped out to another quick start in the third set, this time with a 7-3 lead. With another comeback attempt by NYU, the Crimson turned once again to Weissbourd. In a crucial stretch, Harvard’s go-to player provided two kills and two key blocks to pull the Crimson ahead 26-22. “We put Brady on their best hitters, and that helped a lot,” Baise said. “He made it much more difficult for their star...
...league has modest expectations - Antonucci is shooting for an average attendance between 4,000 and 6,000 fans per game. But WPS is also launching within a crowded sports calendar: March Madness, the NBA stretch run, NHL playoffs, the start of baseball, and the upcoming Masters golf tournament are grabbing fans attention. Soccer is busy, too with MLS in full swing and the U.S. men's team in World Cup qualifying. Somehow, the WPS has to break through. "The league really has to catch fire early," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University...
...thanks to the climate crisis and a 30-year stretch without serious accidents in the U.S., no-nukes sentiment has faded; a Gallup poll this month found that 59% of Americans now support atomic power. The industry has an even broader base of bipartisan support in Congress, which continues to funnel it billions of dollars worth of loan guarantees, tax breaks, insurance benefits and direct subsidies; the latest goodie is "risk insurance," which will reimburse the industry for regulatory delays. States are devising even more creative incentives for new plants; Florida has promised to pay utilities for nuclear investments even...
...aggressiveness of the U.S. approach, the views of a number of American allies are now crystal clear - America is spending itself into a hole which it cannot get out of, and the nation is on a course which will eventually lead to socialism. It isn't a big stretch, after those comments, to see that Topolanek may be a Republican Senator disguised as a Czech official...