Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both campaigns hope the present level of student involvement is just the beginning of something larger...
...Crimson went 1-3 against tough competition at the IKON Husky Volleyball Classic in Storrs, Conn., failing to win a game against strong national-level programs in UConn, Southern Methodist and New Mexico...
Mission Viejo, Calif., has a lofty level of Olympic consciousness. Greg Louganis used to work out at the local multipool swimming complex. The bicycle races of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ran on its roads. So acute is Mission Viejo's awareness of sports that keeping athletic talent a secret is impossible. Dale Herring, 53, went out for his usual walk and jog with his wife Kathryn one morning a few years ago; on impulse, he decided to sprint around a curve, something he had not done in 30 years. Inevitably, he was spotted. The observer, a collegiate coach, urged...
...because of her race and gender but also because of her wit and spark--a politico-celebrity superstar. "She doesn't seem to try to push herself forward in any particular way," says former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is also advising Bush. "But she has such a level of capability...that she winds up getting asked to do all sorts of things...
...think you're going to get to blast an unsuspecting roommate, but you end up a two-time loser--inheriting an empty canister just as the campus cops show up. A similar fate awaits many mutual-fund investors this year. Redemptions from stock funds are running at the highest level in a decade, and those who stay put could wind up holding a big tax liability--essentially having been handed that spent fire extinguisher. Here's how it works. Mutual funds pay no income or capital-gains taxes so long as they pass on the gains and resulting tax liabilities...