Word: excellance
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...August 1998, PoP, only 35, died after a brief battle with cancer. The loss shook Cheiron. PoP had been the studio's musical mastermind, says Zomba's Dodd, and "had an aura around him that made everyone excel." But the industry didn't stop for even a second of silence. The work had to go on. Martin took the musical reins, while studio co-founder Tom Talomaa continued to oversee the business side. They kept Cheiron's modus operandi - plenty of video-game breaks, practical jokes and the like - that PoP had instituted. And the music actually got bigger, with...
...court, Harvard co-captain Deepak Abraham is the consummate professional. He is stoic and focused, and he is determined to make every shot count. He's also got a lot to teach his fellow opponents because he too has played throughout the world and knows what it means to excel...
...teaching aids, such as books and computers. It also puts pressure on principals to account for their schools' performance, gives local officials more control, requires that all children be able to read by the third grade and prescribes regular reading and math testing for students. For teachers whose students excel, there is a merit pay clause...
Falkenrath's colleagues said they expect he will excel in his new position...
...this specificity of purpose, says William Seltzer, an expert in demographic statistics at Fordham University, that provides the most damning evidence. "Microsoft is not responsible for every spreadsheet made with Excel," Seltzer told TIME.com. "But if someone is doing custom designing of a database, they have to know what's going on. With these punch cards, Dehomag had to design a card for every piece of new information that the government wanted...