Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had a scare late in the second half as Wildcat Maura Naughton tried to chip a shot over Whitley. The goalkeeper dove backwards and made an acrobatic save, knocking the ball into the cross...
...ball bounced down in front of the net to the feet of a Wildcat, who could not get off a shot at the open net. In the scramble that followed, sophomore fullback Amanda Slick cleared the ball for the Crimson, preserving the shutout...
Thatcher's concern for the emerging middle class contrasts with her distaste for organized labor. In the three decades before she took over, wildcat strikes had torn holes in the country's economy. Major trade unions were considered more powerful than the government, and labor unrest helped topple two Prime Ministers, Edward Heath in 1974 and James Callaghan in 1979. Thatcher changed all that. Starting in 1980 she pushed through legislation to limit picketing rights, ban secondary picketing and make national unions financially responsible for the actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country...
...closing minute, junior Dean Graham blocked a Wildcat shot and scooped up the rebound. Graham then raced the length of the field, which enabled the Crimson to nearly run the clock out. UNH had one more chance with six seconds remaining, but its desperation heave flew wide of the net, preserving the win for Harvard...
After UNH got on the board first with 4:09 gone in the opening period, Harvard's Brita Lind answered just 50 seconds later with a tenacious, length-of-ice drive and dish to Julia Trotman, who tucked the puck past Wildcat goalie Cathy Narsiff--considered by many to be the finest netminder in the women's game...