Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watson out-bounced junior Jeff Mule, last year's Eastern champ on the three-meter, with 395.35 points in five dives on that board. The NCAA record for the 11-dive list required in championship meets is 608.10, held by Greg Louganis, and any Math concentrator can tell you that Watson was averaging higher marks per dive Saturday...
...Tories unwittingly gave her a helping hand by putting up an inexperienced candidate: John Butcher, 39, an accountant. The Labor Party also did its bit for Williams by choosing a candidate from the party's far left: John Backhouse, 28, a math teacher. Neither was any match for the politician who has few peers in Britain when it comes to charming an audience. Williams has a special gift for creating an immediate rapport, even with strangers. However dark and foggy the night, residents never hesitated to open their doors to talk with the tousle-haired campaigner in her well...
...officials set individual deadlines for attempting the test based on math placement and achievement test scores and have sent letters of warning to the approximately 300 students who failed to meet their deadlines...
From the middle of the wire-strewn mainstage you can spot about a dozen of them, hanging lights or spattering paint on flats, or plunging up to the elbows in papier-mache. Some are here because "I couldn't stand to look at my math homework anymore," some to get "comps"--complimentary tickets available to anyone who helps "put in" a Loeb production. Some settle down to fingerpaint the platforms and Grecian arches for two hours because they will deliver Shakespearean soliloquies from them in a few days, or because, like Peter Miller, they are the set designer...
...perhaps humor today--from Mork to Garp--must live on its own, away from the world, because the world isn't very funny. Tom Lehrer, on the other hand, thought people could think and laugh at the same time. He says he still thinks so, but he's teaching math in California...