Word: although
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That confidence seemed to be lacking in the next game against UMass, even though the Crimson entered the game with reason to be optimistic. Although the No. 11 Minutewomen were 12-3 all-time against the Crimson and had defeated them twice this year, Harvard had given UMass a major scare at the New England Invitational...
...Although Clinton often mentioned that India has many of the world's poor, he rarely saw them. So sanitized was the President's view that many Indians wondered whether he was too optimistic in his assessment of India's potential for progress and, by extension, for the prospect of improved Indo-U.S. relations. But Clinton has always been an optimist. What better trait for someone who wants to be a peacemaker...
...siege of Leningrad and a faithful Communist Party father invalided out of the army with multiple shrapnel wounds. He was a late child, born when his mother was 41 years old. His two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels...
...Raul de Velasco, head of the moderate Miami-based Cuban Committee for Democracy. Attorney General Reno insists that keeping Elian here will set a precedent that could in turn make U.S. children legally vulnerable abroad. But at the same time, Al Gore needs Florida votes. As a result, although Reno has demanded that the Miami family stop stalling, the Clinton Administration has little stomach for enforcing its decision to return Elian to Cuba, especially given the protest violence that might erupt in Miami...
...pain extended beyond its stock-market valuation. The firm canceled a planned $1 billion new-stock offering. That will at least temporarily restrict the company's access to capital, not to mention Saylor's. He had planned to sell shares worth hundreds of millions as part of the offering. Although the stock recovered more than a third of its losses as of last Friday's close, he's now down to his last $5 billion...