Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only did the Crimson play harder, they played faster and better. Harvard dominated the game with 51 shots on Dartmouth goaltender Beth Coyne while the Big Green could only muster 14 shots on Harvard's Jen White...
...that "intellectual prowess" and "athletic talent" are mutually exclusive. She, as an intercollegiate athlete herself, should know that there is not an inverse correlation between athletic talent and academic ability. President Bok's recent survey demonstrated that students involved in time-consuming activities such as athletics tend to do better academically than their classmates who are less involved. In addition, statistics show that board scores of entering athletes are on a par with those of their classmates and that, once at Harvard, athletes are consistently within one standard deviation of the college-wide mean for academics...
...sort of an adjustment tournament. The whole team wasn't there," Lind said. "We looked at it as an opportunity to work on our weaknesses and get some good practice...but we could've played better...
...Howard] was definitely better than we were," Chandler said. "They crashed the boards really well, and that caused problems. But we played a pretty good game...
Recycling, of course, is perhaps the best-known way to reduce waste. Some countries do it better than others. Japan now recycles more than 50% of its trash, Western Europe around 30%. The U.S. does not fare nearly so well: only 10% of American garbage -- or 16 million tons a year -- is recycled, and only ten states have mandatory recycling laws...