Word: efforts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. But the Tarahumara do two things that are different: they run as a group. Secondly, they alternate between bursts of effort and recovery. That's what's brilliant about their running - it's this really smart, strategic combination of fast and slow...
...company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part of a month long tour of American northeastern colleges in an effort to foster greater cultural understanding.The group constituted one of two assembled on the basis of geographical area and professional interest. While one group toured universities in the Northeast, the other toured those in the Midwest.The 12 visitors—eight men and four women—arrived in Cambridge, where they surveyed...
...said after the meet. “If they were in a heat with their teammates, they worked with their teammates to touch them out and win. Swimming as fast as we did and staying that close to Princeton without getting the wins—that was the group effort...
...amazing time watching all of my teammates succeed and swim incredibly fast,” sophomore Kate Mills wrote in an e-mail. “Our championship truly was a team effort. We always said that we were a special team, and in the end, we proved that we really were a special group of girls. I think that speaks to the atmosphere of our year...
...threatened to make several comebacks throughout the second but ultimately could not successfully sustain the effort. With a minute left and the score at 70-63, Rice seemed to wake up, nailing three consecutive free throws after scoring only three points in the first 36 minutes of play...