Word: enviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone set up an advisory panel last May to look into the possibility of reforms, the Ministry of Education strongly believes in maintaining present standards. And most Japanese are seemingly well satisfied with the system more or less as it is. As for those envious Americans, there may be particular Japanese techniques worth duplicating. But the biggest difference between the two systems is what Stanford's Rohlen calls "the spirit that breathes life into the education system." That spirit glows in Japan and has weakened in the U.S. But, says Rohlen, "we have to find...
...trailing two others, is dragged along by all three of them to a teasing and titillating group lunch. While he stares dumbly at his roast beef, the girls chatter about the school they attended to learn to look pretty: "We're professionals, like models. We make the women envious and we make the men feel cheated, and that's not as easy as it sound." Just before the least attractive of the three bears him off to her apartment (he sleeps on the couch), the author provides this little vignette...
...sprawling campus of the Air Force Academy at the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, the cadets savor their new status. Says David Tubb, 19, a freshman from Viroqua, Wis.: "My friends are envious. They think I've got a lot going for me." Agrees Classmate Richard Kobor, 18, of Syracuse: "Everyone looks up to you. People call you sir. The military...
Yale quickly established a wide-open game, exercising fast breaks that might have made even Larry Bird envious. At one point in the second half, Eli Beverly MacGray sacrificed her body to the basket supports on three consecutive fast breaks, risking not only injury, but elongation of a game that was becoming increasingly frustating for the Harvard squad...
...Envious of Bay Bank's network, three of the six other banks in the Square have installed machines since 1977 (Coolidge Bank had the Square's original ATMs), and two of the other three are in the process of introducing them "Students love to play with machines," says Daniel Kellecher, managers of Charlesbank US Trust, which does not have them but is investigating the possibility...