Word: excellently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mach3 will arrive in stores in July, priced at $6.29 to $6.79 for four cartridges, or 35% more than Gillette's Sensor Excel. It will be promoted by a $300 million marketing budget that will include an ad involving a jet producing three sonic booms before morphing into a razor wielded by a guy who looks as if he grows as much facial hair as Matt Damon...
...troubling gap that persists between black and white scores on standardized tests for college admission. Yet we continue to put sports figures on pedestals, paying some of them enough to fund a small-town school system, while we offer few rewards in prestige and applause to youngsters who excel in academics. Indeed, in some black neighborhoods, kids who do well in school are ridiculed for "acting white." Black entertainers Will Smith and Chris Rock have boldly (and hilariously) taken aim at that attitude. Why not the President and his sports panel...
...every undergraduate, it has to be representative of every aspect of student life, regardless of sell value." There is a large proportion of the student population devoting anywhere between 10 and 30 hours a week to a competitive activity. Justifiably, they feel they deserve some recognition, especially when they excel...
...women's sports "don't need gifts from men," they probably don't need opinions from Joel Stein in his condescending article about basketball star Nykesha Sales, "Shooting Like a Girl?" [SPORT, March 9]. Geno Auriemma's UConn teams are made up of scholar-athletes who excel both in the classroom and on the court. Since all of Auriemma's players can do math, they know that salaries in the ABL and the WNBA are infinitesimal compared with men's salaries in the NBA. Auriemma's own salary is subterranean compared with that of the coach of a comparable...
While quick to point out that Ivy League admissions should not be the only measure of success for a given school, Andrews also notes that Winsor graduates tend to excel at a variety of top flight schools. She attributes this success to the self-confidence Hamm observed in her ownclassroom at Georgetown Visitation...