Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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From the start it looked like Harvard was going to get blown out again. The Quakers jumped out to a 18-5 lead on transition baskets and fast breaks. Harvard shot itself in the foot by constantly missing short lay-ups and jumpers. More often than not, the Crimson got stifled by 6'11 center Geoff Owens, who scared the Crimson into redirecting shots and changing their minds about driving into the lane...
...comeback fell short though, as Princeton guard Ahmed El-Nokali victimized the Harvard defense for seven points in the final five minutes...
...Crimson found itself short-handed a couple of minutes later when freshman defenseman Pam Van Reesma went to the penalty box for cross checking at 14:42, but with a 2-0 cushion, Harvard continued to press Huggon...
...process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things we can consciously hold in the mind at one time. But we can trick it into holding more by inventing seven or so main categories and then grouping several things under each...
...pumped just the same. In the big debate the night before, he'd finally managed to get the better of John McCain. More important, Bush had unleashed the dogs of war against his rival--saturation TV and radio attacks, hundreds of thousands of telephone and direct-mail blasts, everything short of leaflets dropping from the skies above South Carolina. The dogs were tearing into McCain, raising questions about his character and dedication to the conservative cause. Bush told the crowd, in his new fire-in-the-belly style, "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism...