Word: excelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based on a unique mixture of planning and enterprise sometimes called Confucian capitalism. Says Edward Chen, director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, about newly industrialized Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore: "The government always leaves some room for the private sector to excel and to compete and to get a reasonable rate of profit." Stressing education, hard work and social harmony, state and business sectors have cooperated to produce the exports that fuel development...
...mere solitude would never hold the eclectic man from Queens. His need to accomplish and excel runs too deep. For 15 years he has scorned vacations. Instead, hard work is more renewing. Cuomo dominates those around him. An excessive talker, he routinely holds listeners captive as he slips into changing courtroom roles, playing innocent here, bullying there, as a technique for gathering information and testing the motives of others. It is a bruising process that tends to make flunkies out of the less sturdy around him. One top aide has packed on 50 lbs. from nervous overeating. But the extra...
...Harvard is based upon this proposition, as Kurzman suggests, it shouldn't be. There are already too many hierarchies at this school separating people into inferior and superior categories. Wouldn't it be simpler and more human to say that good piccolo players and Scott Fusco should excel at what they do and leave it at that? Why is it necessary to say that one is better that the other...
Less than a month after Hyundai Motor America introduced the $4,995 subcompact Excel, the first South Korean-made car to enter the U.S. market, company officials have discovered a problem that could result in complete brake failure. During routine predelivery checks, Hyundai inspectors found that a critical pin was improperly installed in the braking system of three cars. Though no accidents have been reported, the company took no chances. Moving fast, Hyundai executives last week voluntarily recalled all the 4,400 Excels sold in the U.S. Owners were promised free inspections and repairs by Hyundai dealers...
...this ability which allows him to excel at his most important contribution to the Crimson--penalty killing...