Word: versus
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During one brutal stretch, Harvard dropped a 7-2 decision versus Cornell on Nov. 13 and lost 6-3 the next day to Colgate. It showed some heart the next Friday in losing only 3-2 at Princeton, but then nearly let Yale outscore its football counterparts on the day of The Game, falling...
...hardly unusual that the private sector and a big university are teaming up to create new technology," he says. And don?t worry about absent-minded academics being hoodwinked by Gates and his gang. "MIT is filled with bright people," says Quittner, "who can weigh the risks versus the benefits of this deal better than anyone...
...Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission indicates that children under the age of two are more likely to die while sleeping with their parents - particularly in waterbeds - than in their own cribs. Over the course of eight years, 515 children died as a result of mishaps in their parents? beds, versus 400 who were killed by accidents in a crib. These fatalities are separate from so-called crib deaths - or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - where young children die for no apparent reason. Particularly risky to infants, say the study?s authors, are the weight of unconscious adults, the spaces between...
...design houses have done as much as Versace to puncture the pesky membrane that separates fashion from celebrity. Witness the number of famous behinds squeezed onto the front bench last week at Versus' Manhattan show: Madonna's, Bon Jovi's, Gretzky's. But Ms. Versace's guest list was more eye-catching than her spring collection. With its angular crop tops, layered skirts and trashy leather ensembles, it looked like the wardrobe of a groupie for a surfer thrash band...
...Crimson will look to duplicate last season's result versus the Eli, when it knocked off the Bulldogs by the count of 2-1 at Ohiri Field...