Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Field hockey's overtime rule, which reduces the play from 11-on-11 to 7-on-7, opens up the game and makes every single defensive stop crucial. On at least three occasions in the pair of overtimes, UMass broke downfield with an odd man rush, and every time sophomore back Katie Scott stepped up, stole the ball, and turned the momentum in Harvard's favor...
Osterberg did not rule out the possibility of an attack on the FAS network, but said he thought the length of time that the network was down indicated something more fundamental was wrong...
...does Dr. Pangloss rule unchallenged? Not quite. Lindsey sights two potential clouds on the long-range horizon. The more hazy threat, in an expansion still heavily dependent on business investment, is a decline in the yield on marginal investments--the last and most speculative dollars sunk into a venture. Lindsey's scenario: "The marginal investment yields a rate of return which is below the rate demanded by the markets. All of a sudden these investments don't look so good. A few bond issues fail. The economy can be going along just fine, and all of a sudden this hits...
...strongman has the backing of the military and the police, deploying them against half of the population would be untenable - it's a conscript army, after all, and the reason Milosevic actually bothers to hold elections at all is that he requires some measure of popular consent to rule. He may therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges of widespread ballot...
...large, very injured shot-putter C. J. Hunter. Meanwhile, at the Olympic Village in Homebush, 10,000 young athletes were being shuttled to competitions. They were busily proving that Korean women sure can shoot arrows; that Ping-Pong isn't just kid stuff; that while Americans and Australians still rule swimming, the Dutch and Italians are bearing down. Off the clock, these athletes were buying souvenirs, taking pictures, going to pubs - living the Olympic experience...