Word: tough
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Then in the third set, both teams came out tough, knowing that a win then would be crucial. Again, Schossberger and Lopeter kept Harvard in it. After a lot of back-and-forth play, the game was deadlocked, 13-13. But again, the front line of FDU came through with three big points to give its team to victory...
Reducing those emissions by any meaningful degree will require tough new federal standards for automobile fuel economy; government-sponsored inducements to make production of electricity by utilities -- as well as consumption by homes and businesses -- more efficient; and a major research- and-development program for alternative sources of energy. So far, the Bush Administration has not pushed for any of those measures. Nor has it proposed or endorsed any legislation mandating cuts in CO2 emissions...
DeLone, seeded 11th, is considered Harvard's only real threat in the singles bracket after accumulating a 3-5 record at first singles this fall for the Crimson. Included among deLone's five losses this fall was a tough three-set match against the tournament's number-two seed...
...warmup for some of the tough players she will face in Philly, deLone played a practice match last week against Ros Fairbank, the 40th-seeded professional player in the world. Fairbank took the first two sets, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3), but deLone was up, 3-1, in the third when Fairbank had to leave...
...tough part of our season, where we were playing well, but losing close games," Reilly said. "You can take that a couple times, but it gets frustrating. We reached a point where a lot of us wouldn't have minded if the season had ended...