Word: world-class
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most productive loans were for development projects like dams, factories and roads, which can help build the basis for future prosperity. Brazil, for example, borrowed $7.5 billion to make its steel industry into a world-class competitor. But many other projects turned into financial sinkholes, in part because of bad planning and incompetent management. Brazil and Paraguay are cooperating in the construction of Itaipu, the world's largest hydroelectric project, which has a dam almost five miles long. To date, nine years after it was begun, Itaipu has cost $18 billion and has generated not a single kilowatt...
...cheers everyone up by saying, "Never mind the mess here, honey, let me tell you about world-class squalidness." And then yarns away, maybe, about babies so wet that their diapers give off rainbows (a Phyllis Diller line she loves to steal). Or about her husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids...
...doping procedures are even more rigorous than the strict routine followed at last year's Pan American Games in Venezuela. Those resulted in the expulsion from the competition of eleven world-class weight lifters who were found to have detectable levels of steroids. One of them, American Jeff Michels, 22, subsequently appealed the decision and will be al lowed to take part in the Olympic Games. Under the I.O.C.'s new testing system, a representative of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee will contact all three medal winners, as well as a fourth competitor selected...
...stances in 1973. Since then, the drugs have become ever more widely used as men and women seek to push their bodies to still higher levels of attainment. In the U.S., where synthetic steroids were developed about half a century ago, their use is thought to extend from world-class athletes to high school football players. Soviet and East European trainers are widely believed to have been giving the drugs to their athletes since the 1950s. Nor will it be possible for athletes to escape detection simply by stopping use of steroids immediately before the Los Angeles Games: their presence...
...which has no professional sports as they are known in the West, the whole athletic system is geared to winning Olympic medals. In East Germany, which had been touted to win as many as eight golds in women's track-and-field events alone this summer, the production of world-class athletes by rigorous government-sponsored training programs is a source not just of pride but of something close to national identity...