Word: excellent
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...Francisco's troubled musical past had always baffled its narcissistic resi dents. The symphony attracted excel lent musicians, if only for the sake of its pleasant location, but it traditionally suffered conductor trouble. Under its last conductor, Enrique Jorda, it had woeful bad luck playing the very center of the classic repertoire, and Jorda's faltering hand stirred a cauldron of bickers and feuds that hurt the or chestra further...
...government, the effects, Hughes argues, have been the same. Hughes goes beyond Eisenhower's contempt for politicans in explaining the President's frustrations, and suggests that the failing lies deeply rooted in the country's most basic attitudes towards government and politics: "For not even the presidency can grandly excel the range of wisdom, the strength of will, the clarity of purpose of the people it must serve by leading. And this is true no matter whose presidency it be. For it remains, always and ultimately, theirs...
Already under way is joint research in bioclimatology (weather's effects on living organisms), a new field too costly and complex for any one school to excel in. The universities have even pledged to quit raiding one another's faculties for top professors during a May to September "closed season...
Early in life Mortimer displayed his urge to excel. He got top marks in school, became captain of his high school swimming team. When he went to the University of Virginia, he knew what he wanted. "I said to myself I wanted to be Phi Beta Kappa," he recalls. A lawyer who was a fellow student of Caplin's remembers how hard he ran: "Almost from the first day, we knew Morty would be first in the class. Nobody was willing, or had the energy, to compete with...
...ranged from 5% to 41% lower than those of such competing U.S. giants as Allis-Chalmers and Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Hitachi, whose sales in the past five years have increased 280% to last year's $1 billion, thus made an important advance in its drive to excel in highly industrialized markets...