Word: dispatches
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...Harvard possibly compete, much less succeed, against college hockey’s crème de la crème when—in a playoff setting, with just three weeks remaining until the post-season—the Crimson couldn’t even dispatch the relatively feeble Huskies...
While the contest was tight up and down the ladder, Harvard got wins from four of the top five slots—including from all three rookies—to dispatch the Tigers. Sophomore transfer Kyla Grigg won her match at No. 1, 3-1 and freshmen No. 3 Jen Blumberg and No. 5 Supriya Balsekar won in four and three games, respectively...
...employees and their kin to emergency relief centers and hired trucks and planes to ship food, water and medicine to the area. The Paris headquarters donated €767,000 to affected countries, and continues to collect contributions from its 75,000 employees around the world. It will soon dispatch a team to plan the rebuilding of the Lho Nga plant and nearby villages. "It's a human challenge of massive scale," says Alain Guillen, vice president for social policies at Lafarge. Across Europe, corporations and individuals have stepped up to aid a stricken region where they have been working...
That lack of change comes in spite of evidence that not all votes were counted four years ago. A report by the Columbus Dispatch found that of ballots cast in a typical Ohio precinct during the 2000 presidential election, only a sliver—less than two percent—did not have a vote for president recorded on them. But in poorer areas like Ohio’s Appalachia region, presidential votes are much less likely to be recorded; and in predominantly black precincts, presidential votes went uncounted at nearly three times that rate. No one knows...
...only player to drop a game for Harvard against the Mustangs came at the No. 7 position where it took sophomore Mihir Sheth four games to dispatch of his opponent...