Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simple Math...
...Harvard math: two turnovers plus two broken plays equals 21 Crimson points...
Lately, business leaders have been warning about an even more deep-seated problem: a lack of basic skills among workers. While America's colleges and universities are second to none, its high schools are failing to give students the verbal and math basics they need for increasingly technical jobs. When New York Telephone recently administered a test of fundamental skills to 22,880 job applicants, 84% failed. Better job-training programs are key parts of major competitiveness-boosting trade bills now being considered in Congress...
Pavloff, who is the head teaching fellow for Math 21B, attributes his success in cooking to his manual dexterity, his ability to organize his thoughts, and his love of food. "You have to have those if you want to be a good cook," he says...
...tried to take Math at Harvard, but had to give it up. It wasn't that I was too stupid to do well--although some might say that this was a contributing factor--but that whenever I got a problem right I became too happy to continue: "What? Radical two over three? Well, all right! Celebrate good times, come on! I'm outta here! Is 'Alf' on tonight...