Word: ai
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ai qu’une tronconneuse, madame,” I tell her politely, pointing to the chain saw in the back of the car. She has a large frame and a stern expression, and I feel a little intimidated by her towering figure...
...because of health concerns or changing tastes. The apricot souffl, one of Gourmet's early signature desserts, failed the taste test until someone realized that the original recipe used dried apricots from California, not the Turkish ones that are more common today. And a 1950s recipe for niu moa ai that began, "Saw the tops off six small, fresh coconuts" was dropped because it was deemed too time consuming for contemporary cooks. Still, the recipes that did make it in will allow you to re-create classics like beef Wellington or more modern dishes like seared salmon with balsamic glaze...
...perceived flaws that these works unearthed. The athletic rollback movement culminated in the 2003 cutbacks at the Council of Ivy Group Presidents’ spring meeting, which, among other things, cut the size of incoming football recruiting classes from 35 to 30, raised the Academic Index (AI) floor from 169 to 171 and cut the number of full-time and part-time football coaches...
...believes will be necessary to sustain the Ivy League and ward off a seemingly inevitable choice between two competing forces—big-time Division I and Division III. In the end, Lincoln comes to the conclusion that what is needed most is honesty. Rather than hide behind the AI and secretive admissions process, the presidents need to engage in an open, transparent discussion that will allow the league to address the changes that will need to be made to sustain the league as it now stands and make athletics work for all schools in an equitable manner...
...fact, this may have been one of Lincoln’s primary objectives for producing this work. He spends an entire chapter attacking the Game of Life premise that incoming student-athletes with low AIs are more likely to underachieve than their classmates. He points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work?...