Word: standoff
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Faced with furious Dartmouth forechecking, the Harvard defense, led by co-captain Lauren Norton, held the Big Green to a 0-0 standoff in the first period. At 4:36 of the second period, Rosemary Mahoney lofted a soft shot towards Dartmouth goalie Janice Ellis, who caught the puck, bobbled it, and let it trickle into...
...commissioner, with politicians and movie stars acceptable only in rare circumstances. For disobeying the rule, Hoffberger, who last season sold his team to Washington Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, was fined $2,500 by Kuhn. Hoffberger has protested the fine and requested a hearing; Kuhn is considering the appeal. The standoff could continue into next season...
Fans at last night's women's basketball opener against UMass saw two games for the price of one. After playing the Minutemen to a virtual standoff in the first half, the young Crimson squad staggered through the final 20 minutes and lost...
Though the embassy compound fell to the mob quickly enough, the standoff that followed kept taking on new subplots, complications and even characters: the P.L.O., the Pope, the United Nations, Muhammad Ali. Said Senior Editor John Elson, who supervised the coverage: "It's a cover story with more imponderables and mysteries than any we've done in a long time...
...Carter Administration's efforts to devise another wage guideline to replace one that nominally expired Oct. 1 led to a poignant business-labor standoff last week. The White House in September had hailed the new 18-member Pay Advisory Committee as part of a ''national accord" on wage policy that would mark a healing of the rift between the President and organized labor. When the committee's first working session took place, however, all the problems of proper compensation in a period of 13% inflation burst open...