Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard had chances to tack on more runs in the first, but freshman Deborah Abeles was pegged at home trying to score on Kreuder's hit, and later in the inning with the bases loaded freshman Ghia Godfree grounded out to the pitcher to end the inning...
...inning after Carey's blast, the Crimson mounted a two-out rally to tack on two more runs. The big knock in the inning was an RBI double by sophomore Andrew Huling to drive in Kessler...
Patients First, a coalition of four health-care unions based in Newark, New Jersey, is trying a different tack. In February it ran arresting ads on drive-time radio that opened with the beeping of a heart monitor ("This used to be the sound that mattered in determining your health care") and was followed by the ringing of a cash register ("Today this is the sound that matters"). The ads urged listeners to call a toll-free number "if you've been a victim of when profits come before patients." The coalition mainly wanted to recruit such victims to testify...
...passivity, Epps' strategy for race relations on this campus does embrace the idea of programmatic action through the Harvard Foundation. Contrast this tack with that of Appelbaum, whose negativity last night proved overwhelming. Aside from admitting that there was a problem, he saw nothing that could be done to alleviate it. This is the worst sort of mentality, the resistance to change for the better. It is not worth detailing his many awful statements (such as calling the proposed multicultural student center a "cage"), but suffice to say that his do-nothing attitude reflected a bent uninterested in solving...
...statement downplaying the suit, AOL--famous for blitzkrieg marketing tactics--reconsidered and announced a full retreat: the company will throttle back efforts to sign up new subscribers and invest $350 million to upgrade its networks. That may not be a fast enough fix, so AOL is also trying another tack: asking loyal surfers to use the service less...