Word: notches
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...lifts one's gaze to get any kind of perspective, one risks losing one's footing entirely. One of the charms of corporate hierarchy is that the path to success is so clearly charted that one need scarcely ask what success means--it means moving up a notch...
...most fortunate consequence of David Boyum's sitting out the Williams match two days ago was the much accelerated competition the rest of the team was able to face playing up a notch. Particular benificiaries have to be Chip Robie and Spencer Brog. Both played tough and tension-filled five-game matches, entities which have been few and far between for anyone on the team this year. If you've done anything athletic, you know how much experience in tight situations means when you get into them again. Tension just kind of creeps...
...course, Harvard--at least in hockey--is a card-carrying member of the NCAA's Division I. Bowdoin and its 2500 students rate a notch lower in Division II. The Harvard win could hardly be called a collegiate upset. But a familial one it definitely...
...pinched daily life in the old Eastern European capital. Earthquake damage is crudely patched if repaired at all; the public crematorium is a factory where the dead are reduced unceremoniously to convenient size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...
...things in the proper perspective, it should be mentioned that Penn (0-3) isn't a top-notch squad. Like Harvard, the Quakers lack height and have to rely on speed and the fast break...