Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combing through the Help Wanted section. She interviewed in fields that ranged from publishing to financial services to fashion. She called two placement agencies and even a temp agency. After being educated at Harvard, Meghan had to take a typing test and learn how to make spreadsheets on Excel to qualify...
...every parent's hope. One that is nourished by that first toothless grin of recognition, by the infant gaze of almost uncanny alertness and then by the stunning acquisition of words, of ABCs and 1-2-3s. "My child is bright. My child will excel in school. My child will make me proud." Industries are built on such aspirations. There are black-and-white mobiles to stimulate the senses and tapes of Mozart for Your Mind. Later come investments in Reader Rabbit software, encyclopedias and lessons to train every facet of body, brain and soul. But a child...
...reporters, writers and photographers have fanned out across the country to address a simple-sounding question that stays on the minds of parents: How can we make our kids better students? In a 16-page special report, TIME this week examines how and why certain kids manage to excel. This in-depth package offers parents the latest thinking, illustrated by vivid examples, on how to help their children lead successful and well-balanced lives...
...refuse, Microsoft throws in a scheduler and a "contact manager," which allows you to store stuff like snail-mail addresses for associates. Both interoperate with the e-mail program and the other smoothly efficient hitmen of the Microsoft "family": Word, which switchbladed Word Perfect in my machine; Excel, which garroted my copy of Lotus 1-2-3, and, of course...
...funds are nothing new. But they are getting a lot of attention now. A choppy market like the one we've had this summer is where savvy stock pickers are supposed to excel. There are about 150 big-bet funds, reports fund-research firm Morningstar Inc. That's up from about 100 six years ago. The theory is solid. In any large portfolio, the manager is sure to have favorite stocks--often those on which he has done the best research. Why not double up on those and ditch the rest...