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...teams came to Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday looking to avoid a sub-.500 season and a win to salvage a tough 2001 campaign...
...Jake McKenna was huge for us the whole season," Sprong said. "We needed him to avoid a sub-.500 season...
Though the committee was concerned their affection for Tilghman might cloud their judgment, they took many precautions to avoid such bias, and according to Wright, “they actually held her to a higher standard...
...statement snapped heads not only because the U.S. has no defense treaty with Taiwan but also because for 22 years Republican and Democratic Presidents alike have been deliberately vague about whether America might intervene. This stance--dubbed "strategic ambiguity"--was designed to avoid emboldening Taiwan to declare independence and to keep Beijing guessing, so that both would be careful...
...also fueled an active antiabortion movement that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many hospitals, which serve as the training ground for young doctors, stopped performing abortions. The practice moved instead mainly to clinics that specialized in it, which also proved more cost effective...