Word: afterthought
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...athletics. Given such a concerted culling of China's 300 million youngsters, it's perhaps no surprise that in less than two decades of Olympic participation, China?which stayed away from the Games in previous decades in protest of Taiwan's participation?has transformed itself from a sporting afterthought with just five gold medals in 1988 to a juggernaut with 28 golds in 2000. By Sydney, China had climbed to No. 3 in the overall medals tally, trailing only the U.S. and Russia...
...took the helm in February 2003, eight months after SAB bought Miller for $5.6 billion, Adami and his team of transplanted South Africans have defied the skeptics by starting a remarkable turnaround at Miller. Over the past decade and a half, the company had been neglected, treated as an afterthought by its parent, food and tobacco giant Philip Morris. But thanks to an irreverent ad blitz that has presented Miller as a fresh alternative to the self-anointed "king of beers," Miller has drawn its rival into an unusually bitter media war and almost overnight "given itself a new identity...
...marshal's work is his weapon. These agents have the highest standards for marksmanship in the law-enforcement business. I learned that actually firing the gun is almost an afterthought. Much more important were my stance, my breathing, my grip and my focus on the front sight of the gun. If a human target was wearing body armor, I was told to aim at the lower abdomen. "People will bleed out more quickly," my instructor said, "and a moving head can be hard...
...afterthought of a game tacked on to the hollow end of a tantalizingly close-to-glory season...
...follow up? Our high academic standards do not prevent the Athletic Department from organizing events that allow students to get to know winning teams. Michigan and Duke, two prestigious schools, have somehow figured out a way to get their intelligent students excited about sports. But promotion is an afterthought at Harvard...