Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface at Boston Garden is small and rough. Skating skills, a Harvard staple, are not as important as bruising skills. A hockey maxim: bigger players are better on a small ice surface. And B.C. is bigger...
Nesty was the most unlikely gold medalist at the Olympics. He grew up in a country with only one 50-meter pool. His improbable victory showed that hard work, even against great odds, does pay off, a maxim Americans cherish...
...gospel according to Peters, the most fundamental maxim is that ideas cannot be divorced from experience. Consequently, his book comes cloaked as an autobiography. As he ambles through the events of his life, Peters collects simple lessons and weaves them into a political creed. From his childhood in Charleston, W. Va., he developed an ideal of community values based on a willingness to share society's burdens. From his Army service, he picked up a lasting disdain for class distinctions. And a stint as a Peace Corps administrator left him with a sharp eye for the foibles of Government bureaucracies...
...home and abroad, about her early life. Only within the past few years has there been general agreement in the West on Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev's birth date, Jan. 5, 1932, and that she was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk. Her father was a railroad engineer named Maxim Titorenko. That is about all there is to her official biography...
...Harvard Square branch of Bruegger's Bagel shops has decided to disprove this maxim...