Word: excels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comfortable with who you are," she says. "You don't waste energy, you are moving ahead. You can become dismissive of people who are different. Meanwhile, adolescents have to experience all the different feelings in order to grow." Older parents can put additional pressure on their children to excel. "I make no bones about it. I want my kids to be superachievers," admits King. "I take the long view...
...beating all of those people who still try to make Blacks out to be sub-humans--physical specimens built and bred only to play football and basketball. Nesty has proven that Blacks can indeed excel in other sports if given the encouragement any athlete needs along with the proper facilities to hone budding skills...
...both sides, the twelve-year Olympic hiatus has heightened the mystique of the competition. For American athletes -- and even more for American fans -- distance and legend have transformed the Soviets into supposed supermen and super-women, selected when barely out of the cradle and taught like emotionless automatons to excel. This exaggerated notion has some basis in fact. The Soviets have a nationwide network of specialized sports schools for even the youngest potential stars, leading to intensive adult training guided by methodical, scholarly study. High-tech training wizardry is rumored to be compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed...
...first day to tell her bosses she has come upon a murdered corpse just a few hundred yards from their office -- only to have it explained to her that unless the victim is a household name, this item has no news value. The young woman soon learns to excel at the chicanery by which the tabloid's "stories" are concocted, yet keeps pondering the disappearance of the corpse and other oddities until her legitimate reportorial instincts first imperil and then save her. The mystery does not equal the standard set by past Westlake plots but is as sternly instructive...
...else, will provide the gimlet-eyed assessment of Jackson. Some implicitly assume that Jackson cannot withstand such scrutiny. Certainly Jackson's maladroit stewardship of $5.6 million in federal grants and contracts awarded under the Carter Administration is a lingering embarrassment. Technically the money went to PUSH-Excel, an educational subsidiary of Jackson's Chicago antipoverty organization, Operation PUSH. From the outset, Jackson was the catalyst for the funding. Carter Cabinet officials such as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall courted Jackson and invited him to apply for grants. "These federal agencies came...