Word: award
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Alex wanted his youngest sister to win the coveted Thomas Dewey Award for Academic Excellence, which he had received for three consecutive years. With his trademark snideness, he lamented the "dry season" in academic awards that his family had experienced during "The Mallory Years"--the time when his ditzy, fashion-concious sister, Mallory, was in junior high school...
Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
Specifically, Bush has promised to increase funding for a variety of programs that serve students from preschool through college, to reward schools that raise test scores and to award cash bonuses to outstanding teachers. Now that the White House is his, TIME will take the President-elect at his word. During the next four years, the magazine will occasionally grade Bush on his progress in addressing one of the nation's most urgent problems...
University officials have a lock on the "smiling gamely and not worrying" award, judging by their reaction to the first set of results from last spring's major survey of undergraduate life at the College...
...significant physical limitations, Tom strove to be normal and did more than succeed. He graduated third in his class with high honors from Noble and Greenough High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine, captained the golf team and won the school's highest award for creative writing in his senior year...