Word: expendability
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...everyone. Many professors demand attention, production and a willingness to learn. Luckily for them, many students are more than willing to expend the effort necessary to meet and exceed the requirements and expectations of the course, no matter how challenging, and they reap the rewards of a job well done...
...ever," says Thomas Halpern of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City. "But for the sake of public safety and the country as a whole, this is better than if the granddaddy of the far-right extremist movement presented a united front. If we're lucky they'll expend their energy fighting each other, and they won't have anything left to infect the American body politic...
...here's why: two researchers in Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three to five days before the kickoff. Alexander Olshanyetsky and Mordechai Halperin of the Jerusalem Center...
...Each of the people running pretty much agreeswith the direction Carey's taken," Mann says. "Butthey all also probably feel he's not beatable, sothey don't want to expend political capital...
...Universally, women are often treated more condescendingly," says a female senior. "You have to expend much more energy than...