How would the Terrapins react when they played good teams after an easy early schedule?

One official said an early schedule had the Pirates and Indians playing.

Even with Taylor, the Giants had a tough early schedule.

Orlando has a favorable early schedule, with 17 of its first 27 games versus teams that did not make the playoffs last year.

The earlier schedule has added to the perception among fund-raisers that they have less time to raise more money.

Thomas insists he is happy where his team is, at 4-7, considering the difficulty of its early schedule.

As per the earlier schedule, the first two units were expected to go critical by June 1996.

Clearly, their breeze through an early schedule was not a fluke.

Under the earlier schedule it would have taken 15 to 17 years to complete the 31 projects envisioned in the master plan, city officials say.

But the Giants' motivation might be aided by the difficulty of their early schedule.