Word: tougher
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...Sugarman has had an even tougher time at Harvard. Though he came in with very high expectations from coaches, teammates and himself, he has been hampered by injuries all four years and has only started to see significant playing time midway through this season...
Meanwhile, Belichick has been juggling a never-ending string of injuries, using 40 different starters this season. He has been able to guide his team to the same record as Parcells against a much tougher schedule, with New England facing four teams with winning records. The Patriots beat all four...
...against a nearby wall. This morning happy-go-lucky PFC Wyatt meets with Joseph Miller, the hospital's chief prosthetist, who makes wounded soldiers close to whole again with man-made arms and legs. The types of wounds coming back from Iraq--blast and shrapnel injuries--make his job tougher. "Those kinds of injuries mean more infections and multiple surgeries," he says. Wyatt nods; he knows this from experience. He has had 10 surgeries since being wounded, with several inches of thigh carved off in the process. "So I'm going to start off with a mechanical knee?" the young...
...guys clearly understand what our goals were at the beginning of the season,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said, “and they haven’t changed. We’ve just made it a little bit tougher on ourselves, but the good news obviously is that we control our own destiny...
...France's Renault (and far better than Italy's Fiat and France's Peugeot). In the U.S., the benchmarks for high quality are Toyota and Honda, nameplates that haven't sold as well in Europe (though that's changing). But the Golf V and its variants are facing a tougher European marketplace. The Golf will take on a new Opel Astra, which launches early next year, and faces formidable foes in the Peugeot 307, Renault Mégane and Mazda's upcoming Mazda3. Analysts say the Golf already loses sales to other VW brethren, such as the Audi...