Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Wentzell, associate director of athletics, said, "This [accident] just highlighted the nature of their activity so we'll take a closer look at it," saying that he had met with the cheerleaders and they had discussed further ways to recruit coaches. However, Chestney expressed concern that they may not find a coach soon. The Harvard cheerleaders have not had a regular, paid coach in recent memory. Perhaps this lack of professional coaching has been an obstacle to competing in national forums; we hope that a coach is the first step toward that level of competition...
...highly personal wunderkammer of his own portraits of American heroes mixed with natural-history specimens. When you think of Rauschenberg giving new life to a stuffed angora goat in Monogram, 1955, or repeatedly silk-screening the effigy of John F. Kennedy, there's some truth to this. But his closer affinity is with an equally polymorphous ancestor, Walt Whitman, the entranced celebrant of American variety...
Although at first glance, both books appear more shallow than a drop of testosterone, a closer reading of both proves that they are not without their charm. Both are written in a friendly, "buddy-buddy" style that instigates an "us-against-them" attitude in the reader's mind--not unlike the pro-female books that also saturate the market. An enlightened person may ask, "Can't we reinforce our strength without making the other party look weak?" People like this, however, obviously do not work for the mass media. They may also be from Pluto instead of either Mars...
...news for small investors is the same old buy-and-hold; once the big cash is back at home, the U.S. markets will stabilize. Indeed, by closing Thursday, there were signs this had already begun. But if the bears don't scatter, and suddenly the Dow's closer to seven grand than eight, listen to Kadlec: "That could be a heck of a buying opportunity...
...What makes Europa special are the synergistics," Hibbittz said. "Europa is closer [than Callisto] into Jupiter so it is more effected by gravitational pull, which keeps it hotter...