Word: time-out
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Case in point--Saturday night at Briggs Cage, the Harvard women's basketball team was leading Cornell by 13 points with six seconds to go. Instead of running out the clock, Cornell decided to call time...
What is it with the peso crisis south of the border? Are we talking about a brief time-out in the hat dance of prosperity or a massacre at the investors' Alamo? If you listened to your broker a few months ago and bought Telefonos de Mexico, Cifra or Grupo Televisa -- or shares in a Mexico mutual fund -- should you be jumping out or staying...
Steve Fisher: A) A Fabber Five than the new bunch of recruits he's already got; B) a non-aggression pact with the Ivy League; C) copies of Sun Tzu's "The Art of Coaching" and Clausewitz's "Time-out Strategy...
...that soccer is boring or that the referee is the only one knowing how much time is left. Baseball is untimed and has many dull parts, as do basketball and football when everything is a time-out or a foul/penalty...
...stadium as steamy as a Turkish bath, Navratilova parried top-spin forehands with crisp volleys. Martinez responded by hitting passing shots with precision; they found the lines unerringly. Martinez won the first set 6-4. Navratilova was leading 3-0 in the second set when Martinez called a time-out for a muscle injury. The delay seemed to break Navratilova's concentration, but she held on to win the set, 6-3. In the decisive third set, however, younger legs prevailed 6-3. But the warmest cheers after the match belonged to the runner-up, who magnanimously allowed Martinez...