Word: goals
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...really lived. Roquentin wishes for the type of meaning in his own life that one can bestow on another's life after the death of that person, where everything in that person's life can be viewed as following a central design and moving towards a goal. The problem inherent in writing a biography is that any representation of the person's life as leading to a logical goal or conclusion fails to reflect the chaotic, first-person perspective in which the subject actually lived his or her life...
That is the height of Midshipmen senior center Sitapha Savane, who led the Patriot League in rebounding and field goal percentage one year ago, and has shown little sign of slowing down so far this season...
Fortunately for the Crimson, it may only take one goal to beat Yale tomorrow. With only six goals in nine games this season, the Bulldogs have yet to score more than a single goal in any game this season, and sport far-and-away the worst offense in the conference...
...years later, America's effort to become the world's best-educated nation is receiving failing marks. A federal panel reported Thursday that each of the six national education goals President Bush set in 1990 for the year 2000 will go unmet. Still, there was some noticeable improvement from kids at the youngest age. As it turns out, throwing money at the problem of fulfilling Bush's goal that kids enter kindergarten ready to learn really did work. Even as the level of federal funding devoted to public education stagnated during the past decade, the amount invested in early childhood...
...Shemmer's eventual goal is to found his own company as well. But he keeps a laser-like focus on planning. "Am I envious?" he says. "Of course I'm envious--you can't help but be when you see kids making billions." Nevertheless, most Internet startups fail, especially when founders lack business sense. "I've learned so much in this year and a half," Shemmer says. "I'm maximizing, A, my probability of getting to one of those startups, and B, being of value to those startups...