Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even a gifted athlete's making it to the major leagues. Far more important than the shortage of black and Latino professional coaches and general managers is the huge surplus of inner-city youngsters who don't think they have to hit the books so long as they can crash the boards, or the opposing quarterback. That self-destructive attitude gets reinforced every time a high school sports star gets special treatment over an A-student classmate; every time a multimillionaire pro like Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell gets off the hook for violent behavior that would cost...
...take commercial courses designed to prepare students for the LSAT. Though the disparity is slight, experts point to an even more significant test-prep gap: while whites take high-end, intensive courses offered by Kaplan Educational Centers and the Princeton Review, minorities tend to settle for cheaper, weekend crash courses. The reasons vary from lack of familiarity with the fancy courses (kids who did not use them for the SAT don't think of trying them for the LSAT) to affordability (the better programs run close to $1,000). But the difference in outcome can be crucial. Kaplan's students...
...motley group of more than 12,000 runners will gather in Hopkinton late in the morning on April 20. This, the Athlete's Village (known in non-marathon times as the Hopkinton High School), will offer food, drink and rest areas to the runners. Don't attempt to crash the party, though--it's participants only in the Village...
...glance at the pile of textbooks stacked high on my desk is a constant reminder that the never-ending cycle of work can only be ignored for a while. This cycle, work-sleep-work-work-don't -sleep-work-CRASH, seems an unavoidable and undesirable downward spiral, the end result of which remains mysterious...
...stock-market crash leads to a worldwide economic crisis...