Word: pulling
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...yards of offense, and zero poised quarterbacks (apologies, Mr. Tom Bennewitz) in the opener. New Hampshire, on the other hand, is the top-ranked team in 1-AA, on the strength of the seventh-best offense in the nation. And that is deceptive, because the Wildcats tend to pull their starters when the game is in hand, which last week meant the second quarter. The week before that, they upended 1-A Northwestern. QB Ricky Santos and WR David Ball (within three of tying Jerry Rice’s 1-AA record for career touchdown catches at 50) are legitimate...
...face of the earth, such a statement probably would have prompted a follow-up question about what exactly the program’s replacement might be. At Harvard, however, it was enough to provoke a firestorm. This newspaper lead its coverage with the headline, “College Pulls Plug on Prefects,” and the prefects themselves, whose tears stained The Crimson’s coverage and garnered great sympathy across campus, were up in arms. For then-new Associate Dean for Advising Programs Monique Rinere, it was the worst first week on the job ever. For everyone...
...younger students are flocking to internships now is a question experts debate. Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, attributes their popularity in part to helicopter parents who "push" their kids to stand out in a hypercompetitive college market and employers who "pull" younger and younger prospects in to win a hypercompetitive talent race...
...think we were conspicuous at all, or at least I hope not. I mean you can’t always tell if you’re conspicuous or not. We had to relocate a couple of times, because you know, the footsteps, you hear them, you quickly pull down the skirt?...
...process can now go one of two ways: Either the planning committee can allow Behnisch the room to chart the future, or they can pull back in fear of disrupting the love affair. The latter option would yield only architectural boredom in Allston. It is crucial that the design process keep at the front of its mind the period when Cambridge was, in the words of ArchitectureBoston editor Elizabeth S. Padjen, “an architectural Camelot of high energy, idealism, and creativity...