Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play baseball for a school specializing in math and science, a proper understanding of angles, parabolic curves, and the like should make sacrifice bunts one of the easier fundamentals to master...
...exceptionally bright and ambitious. Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Nelson Rockefeller were dyslectic, as are Singer Cher and Athlete-TV Pitchman Bruce Jenner. The National Institute of Dyslexia gives annual achievement awards; winners this year include Stanford Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and Timothy Loose, a Tucson math teacher who learned to read when...
...authentic Harvard freshmen, I can lay your mind to rest on both accounts. I find my days simply bursting with things to do, places to see, and new vistas of thought to explore. I have also held extensive conversations with several math majors, who assured me that they would not take it all that hard if the computer QRR was abolished...
...calculator, a math major, Johnson had played a tidy second base for Earl Weaver's best teams in Baltimore. During the '60s, before computers were cool, Johnson wrote a program designed, as he put it, to "optimize" the Oriole lineup. Weaver never got around to installing it, but he loved to hear his second baseman talk. To Johnson there are no "hitting streaks" or "hot hands." There are "favorable chance deviations." The Mets' general manager, Frank Cashen, also came from Baltimore. He is considered conservative, though ( a better word would be careful. While Cashen tilts especially toward caution...
...chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled with art, music, French, math, gym, reading, science and social studies until mothers and fathers in Volvos and BMWs came to pick them up. "There's a lot of competition out there," said Debra, looking ahead to the school and college years. "It can't hurt to give them an early start in education...