Word: performancee
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Realizing that he had one final chance to down the Terriers and claim bragging rights in the Beantown battle, Prestifilippo turned in an outstanding individual performance.
The most powerful star in many city school districts these days is not the superintendent but the mayor. Since 1991, mayors have taken over districts in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, and now make school-board and superintendent appointments. In the best cases, like Chicago, where the mayor and superintendent...
Sixth-grader Anthony Hidalgo, New York City champion for his age group, falls asleep with a chess book almost every night. "I get ideas from studying the mistakes of other players," he says. Hidalgo, an A student who wants to be an engineer, says chess has improved his scholastic performance...
POOR LURE With so much competition among mutual-fund companies, some are trying to woo new investors by offering premiums. Baron funds reportedly plans to offer hotel discounts, while Strong and Montgomery funds are handing out subscriptions to personal-finance magazines; Westcore is drawing names to win $250 worth of...
The force sustaining the economy's extraordinary performance is you. Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of all business activity, and with record low unemployment, better pay and the effervescent stock market, Americans spent 5.3% more in 1999 than they did the year before, the largest gain in 15 years...