Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first two contests against Pennsylvania and Boston College, Harvard was lured into a game of long balls, abandoning its basic principles and the strength of its short game. Both the midfield and the backs were content to loft balls into the offensive zone, forcing the frontrunners to be caught in a continuous, futile sprint for the ball...
...Pittman, chief executive of AOL Networks, are working to make AOL even easier. They hope to capture the mindless simplicity of a television: on, off, a channel tuner. AOL says, for instance, that 60% of the calls that spill into its help center come from people who are having basic computer problems--not difficulties with AOL. And many of the problems float around the "Is it plugged in, sir?" level of difficulty. Of AOL's 7,500 employees, more than half spend their days on the phone helping customers. And they get an earful: AOL customers are a cantankerous...
...separate floors, to be sure, but just a tempting staircase away. The tour guide breezed by the condom stash, labeled "the goods." Finally, Hack ducked out of a required safe-sex seminar complete with demonstrations on dental dams. In short, he says, life at Yale seems to follow a basic dictum: Anything goes. "Exactly the biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah," he notes...
...Critics charge that the committees drafting the exams are using them to promote faddish pedagogies like "whole language" and "fuzzy math." Last month a disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director Laura Barrett says, for focusing on "rote memorization rather than creative problem solving...
Although Harvard Coach Jennifer Bates has shown a willingness to experiment with different lineups in preseason matches, Harvard's basic package includes a solid veteran core in senior outside hitter Elissa Hart--who co-captains the team along with Lolita Lopez--junior outside hitter Melissa Forcum and Nash...