Word: meet
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...great performance,” co-captain Jack Brady said. “Normally this [first meet] is about shaking the rust off and getting back into the swing of competition…but we had a bunch of guys go out and run really great times...
...first meet, you never know what’s going to happen,” Brady said. “You’ve got to be happy when you get a personal best. It shows that I’ve made progress and that I’m ahead of where I was at the end of last season...
...This meet definitely met our expectations in terms of getting a first competition under our belt,” Saretsky said. “[It’s important] especially for the freshmen, just to get a taste of what college track and field is all about...
...rare phenom to fulfill his promise. He's a multiethnic star with a megawatt smile and what was a clean-living image - qualities he harnessed to become the consummate corporate pitchman, the world's richest athlete for eight years running and the target of unending idolatry. When athletes meet the stratospheric expectations heaped upon them, we have fewer incentives to unwrap their shiny packaging. Now that Tiger's brand has been dented, fans who bought Nikes or quaffed Gatorade at his urging may be channeling their disillusionment into moral outrage. They're less likely to give Tiger a mulligan...
...what happens when Muslim employees ask for a prayer area at work? Or when a female staffer wants to wear a headscarf while representing her firm to clients? Or a devout male staffer refuses to shake hands with or meet with women colleagues? First, the authors stress, bosses should deal no differently with religious demands from Muslim workers than with those from Christian, Jewish or Buddhist staff. "Evaluate Mona as you would Martine," Dounia and Lylia Bouzar write. (Read "Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its Identity...