Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surely no one really believes productivity would nose-dive if employees were free to wear team logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities. In fact, the economy could only benefit from an increase in democracy--and enthusiasm and creativity--on the shop floor. Or does the "free" in "free market" apply just to people...
Starting in the late 1980s, drug dealers had claimed the place as their own, part sales ground, part killing ground, where they seized market share the hard way, with drive-by shootings and turf wars. At the nearby St. Philip Social Service Center, preschoolers learned to dive for the floor in "shooting drills,'' then stay there until their teachers sounded the all clear. By 1994 there were three or more killings each month on the streets outside. Standing now where the unthinkable used to be the unremarkable, police lieutenant Edwin Compass III looks around with a shudder...
Against Army, Emerson edged out Murray for first place in the one-meter dive, while Murray took the three-meter competition, with Emerson finishing second...
...training regimen is very different now," he points out. "I used to practice three times a week and those practices were optional. Now, I have mandatory practices Monday through Saturday and extra early morning workouts Monday and Wednesday, but [Harvard diving coach Keith Miller] is a quality coach. You can't help but get better if you dive every...
That's a lot of confidence for a newcomer to the collegiate diving scene, but it takes confidence to dive, whether it be 100 feet below the ocean's surface, 10,000 feet above the ground, five feet above a mobbed mosh pit, or off of a one-meter diving board, in Matt Murray's case...