Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repeat performance, Harvard Coach Peter Roby must find a way to dictate the pace of the game. The Crimson has played an up-tempo, fast-break style all season, which led to blowout losses at Duke and Nebraska but then to wins over Yale and Dartmouth. Meanwhile, the Tigers have played a much more deliberate game, twice holding Ivy rivals to under 40 points and Big Ten power Michigan State to just 51 (in a two-point loss...
...loss dropped the Tigers (13-5 overall, 4-2 Ivy) into a three-way tie for first place with Harvard and Dartmouth. With the win, the Quakers (8-10, 3-3) pulled into a three-way tie for fourth place with Yale and Brown, just one game behind the pace-setters...
Yogi Berra would have been proud, but Cist was exhausted. She first tied her opponent Anne McGowan, 14-14, but Cist's comeback wasn't finished. She then battled from a 2-1 deficit in a sudden-death set three to take the match and pace Harvard to a 5-4 upset victory over Princeton yesterday at Hemenway...
What's going on here? The political terrain is shifting, and the smartest Republicans are scampering to keep pace. "The electorate's composition is % changing," says a G.O.P. strategist. "The baby boomers are taking over, and their credo is 'Live and let live.' " A move to the left could alienate Bush's base of antiabortion conservatives, he acknowledges, "but those people will probably stay with us in the end, and we'll need the young libertarians...
...Siemens-IBM venture is a welcome boost for the U.S. high-tech industry, which has suffered from a downturn in corporate spending on research and development. According to a study by the National Science Foundation, the growth in U.S. research spending in 1989 failed to keep pace with inflation for the first time since 1975. U.S. outlays rose 3.4% last year, to $68.8 billion, but inflation hit 4.6%. Among reasons for the downturn is the relatively high level of U.S. interest rates, which increases the cost of financing research, and corporate America's emphasis on short-term results...