Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a very encouraging sign because so many guys performed at a higher level than you usually see at this point of the season," Ciollo said. "Judging by the way the distance guys ran this weekend, you wouldn't think they were coming off a bad cross-country season. They seem ready to turn over a new leaf...
...Kaustuv Sen's "In Defense of Business Careers" (Opinion, Dec. 1): Almost no one would refute that long-term economic growth eventually benefits almost all consumers, but I question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
...haven't seen many women's hockey games that have been played at a level like today's game," UNH coach Karen Kay said. "It was the two best teams going at it and it was a great game. But they [Harvard] worked and never gave up, so they deserved...
...sense Henry Ford became a prisoner of his own success. He turned on some of his best and brightest when they launched design changes or plans he had not approved. On one level you have to admire his paternalism. He was so worried that his workers would go crazy with their five bucks a day that he set up a "Sociological Department" to make sure that they didn't blow the money on booze and vice. He banned smoking because he thought, correctly as it turned out, that tobacco was unhealthy. "I want the whole organization dominated by a just...
...born and died in Italy, yet the influence on America of a grubby street urchin named Salvatore Lucania ranged from the lights of Broadway to every level of law enforcement, from national politics to the world economy. First, he reinvented himself as Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. Then he reinvented the Mafia...