Word: volleyer
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Though he employs the serve-and-volley strategy quite consistently, he hadn’t been able to hit any volleys until the day before his match. However, Riddell is a team player and would not let the Crimson down in its biggest match of the year...
...captain Oliver Choo and junior Cliff Nguyen won 8-3 at No. 3. The Harvard pair quickly noticed that opponent Aravinda Neuman’s volley was weak, so they consistently ripped service returns past him while he was at the net and used a variety of shots to force Neuman to attempt volleys...
...planners are trying to make that transition easier. They are betting that a ferocious opening volley--what they call a shock-and-awe campaign--would destroy Iraq's will to resist and quickly end Saddam's rule with little destruction to the country's infrastructure. Some officers have even grumbled that the war plan places too many transportation and power grids off limits as a sop to postwar needs. But if hostilities drag on, rebuilding Iraq could prove as costly and complicated as the four-year reconstruction of Hitler's Germany...
...adopting the IASB's stricter standards. "I'm very bemused by a guy who's running a stock exchange lashing out like this at his own customers," says IASB director of technical activities Kevin Stevenson, but "maybe this is the beginning of a more significant battle." Perhaps Berkeley's volley would have more credibility if the NASDAQ had not plunged 74% since the spring of 2000. Who's pulling down whom...
...have not yet set sneakered foot on a court with the big guy. But hope springs eternal—we’ve fired off some more e-mails, made plans to hit office hours and generally plan to continue to do anything we can to get serve and volley with El Presidente. The Summers Tennis Watch continues...