Word: minoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite putting up solid numbers in the “minor leagues,” Cooke couldn’t seem to stick anywhere and never capitalized on his NBA invites to get on a roster...
...commissioner’s office is the only body that can stop this madness, because the incentives for teams and high-schoolers are too strong for them to voluntarily cease and desist. Either it needs to institute an age cap or develop the proposed minor league system, giving teams places to put developing high-schoolers instead of having them take up valuable roster spots...
...entire affair has been something of a minor tragedy in my otherwise ingenuous existence. It wasn’t so much the bike’s loss that I lamented—it can easily be replaced with another, less outrageously colored, model. What really bothered me was that someone had jolted me out of my comfortable world with what can only be described as an act of patent, petty meanness. I sure hope that there were bona fide economic motives behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike...
Most of us are just small-scale cheaters: We speed on the highway; we make minor omissions on our tax forms; we sneak in through the back door at Adams. We’ve become accustomed to these minor infractions. But the Big Rules almost everyone obeys. Let’s face it—even murderers stop at red lights. So it’s really a shock to the system when the basic fairness of the world is exposed for what it is—frankly, a big sham. Thou shalt not swindle thy shareholders out of their...
...Gibbons, associate dean for public affairs at the the Medican School, echoed Aisner’s advice. “We are pleased that the school is consistently ranked number one; however, students shouldn’t be using surveys like this for anything other than the minor portion of the decision making,” he said...