Word: wildcats
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...That was the strategy for the New Hampshire men’s basketball team on Tuesday night at Lavietes Pavilion. Faced with the daunting prospect of going inside against Harvard’s twin towers of junior center Brian Cusworth and captain forward Matt Stehle, the Wildcats opted for a bevy of three-point shots over the Crimson defense. As the 71-50 final score in favor of Harvard (5-0) indicates, New Hampshire (1-4) was unsuccessful. The Wildcats shot just 23.1 percent from behind the arc, making six of their 26 attempts against the Crimson?...
...reasons, he is different. First, his business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several of those who complained. "I'm in debt to the banks and most people I know, and I can't even return home to visit my parents...
...Over the next several years, the wildcat wells were steadily taken over by the government. Complaints about inadequate compensation grew until 2003, when the dispute prompted tens of thousands of people to demonstrate in front of town halls throughout Shaanxi. At first, officials negotiated with peasant representatives. When talks stalled, local officials cracked down. In Ansai county in 2003, protesters say, police rounded up scores of demonstrators, shaved their heads, trussed their arms with twine, and marched them into the courtyard of a government building to be harangued by officials...
...trouble began on Thursday in Chiba prefecture, just south of Tokyo, when 1,100 members of a renegade chapter of the Locomotive Engineers' Union went on a 24-hour wildcat strike. At issue was the proposed breakup of the stateowned Japanese National Railways and its eventual sale to private ownership. Privatization is favored by the government, which is liable for the JNR's deficit, which totals over $92 billion. The proposal was harshly denounced by the 38,000-member Locomotive Engineers' Union as well as by the 200,000-member National Railway Workers' Union because it could reduce...
Herrmann and a few others, including teammates Jake Bruton, Max Warren, Javi Castellanos, and Matt Brunnig, attended the 4 p.m. Missouri-Arizona contest to catch an early look at star Missouri pitcher Max Scherzer, who yielded four early runs to the Wildcat bats...