Word: excellent
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...literature, and the professor got into the annoying habit of giving me C's and D's on my papers. Finally, on the eighth and final essay of the year. I got an A-. I felt--rightly--that I had acquired a new skill, that I had learned to excel in an area in which I had been close to failure. Exulting in this experience, I chose to study literature. Of course, my instructor could have given me A's all along, thus depriving me of this feeling of genuine accomplishment, a sentiment many Harvard undergraduates will never know...
Freshmen Caroline Miller (in the butterfly), Alexa Zesgter (freestyle and backstroke) and Greta Steffenson (freestyle distance) are also expected to excel...
...impressive gains by U.S. chipmakers can be chalked up largely to Yankee know-how in specialized chips. While Asian chipmakers continue to excel in mass-produced, low-margin areas like basic memory chips, U.S. companies are focusing on devices with more functions and higher profits. American semiconductor firms, for example, have always maintained a comfortable lead in microprocessors, the "brains" of computers, with about 90% of that market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed...
...They're hard workers, and they both earned it," said Club President Douglas K. Clark '93. "Now it's our job to make sure we reach new boundaries and excel...
...dizzying array of backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle -- 62 Olympic races in all -- the long-dominant Americans especially expected to excel in the individual free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...