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...some leads go, double-digit leads at halftime,” Unger said. “If you come out at halftime and you’re already up, if you increase your lead in the first five minutes, a lot of times the other team will quit and lie down, and we were able to at least keep it in the 20s and not let them get any momentum.” In its offensive explosion, more than half of the Crimson’s points came in the paint, where it put up 44. Magnarelli led the team...
...some leads go, double digit leads at halftime,” Unger said. “If you come out at halftime and you’re already up, if you increase your lead in the first five minutes, a lot of times the other team will quit and lie down, and we were able to at least keep it in the 20s and not let them get any momentum.” In its offensive explosion, more than half of the Crimson’s points came in the paint, where it put up 44 against the Dartmouth defense...
What this means is doing less with less and cutting corners to make it look like more, sometimes with disastrous results. The lie of "more with less" is, in a way, the heart of the series. "The Wire's basically about the end of an empire," says Simon. "It's about, This is as much of America as we've paid for. No more, no less. We didn't pay for a New Orleans that's protected from floods the way, say, the Netherlands is. The police department gets what it pays for, the city government gets what it pays...
...Sopranos, it's laugh-out-loud funny, full of gallows humor and hustles. In the first scene of Season 5, detectives use a low-tech scam to work a confession from a perp: they load a photocopier with papers reading TRUE and FALSE and convince him it's a lie detector. "The bigger the lie," says a cop, "the more they believe...
...series of near-collisions also led the DGCA to decree that simultaneous operations on the two runways - whose flight paths merge instead of lying parallel - be discontinued. Those simultaneous runway operation had been implemented in April 2006 to increase flight departures and arrivals from 25 to 42 per hour. That was, however, a violation of international safety norms because Delhi's runways do not lie parallel. A new parallel runway will not be operational until the middle of next year, and traffic movement will slow down considerably until then...