Word: mottoes
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...coaching staff. The incoming players are expected to meet this target by the time they arrive for preseason camp in August. After arriving on campus, they are weighed twice every week year-round to make sure they are maintaining their bulk through proper weight training and caloric intake. The motto here is “more mass equals more force,” and the more force you have, the more likely you are to see playing time and the better your chances of overwhelming your similarly large opponent.Getting that big takes a plan. It takes devotion. It means eating...
...sorry), New Hampshire is a state that could literally fall off the American map and nobody would notice. It is a godforsaken backwoods of nothingness that for a few weeks out of the year has fall foliage—get a postcard, it lasts longer. Their state motto may be “live free or die,” but I would advocate for “live free or die of boredom...
...highly redundant book is simple: when we all work together and share, we all win. If that sounds like the same thing that our preschool teachers were telling us on the playground, that’s because it is.But “Wikinomics” encourages applying this motto on a global scale, which is possible with the Internet at our disposal. And Topscott and Williams remind us that “sharing is more than playground etiquette,” because it offers such a wide variety of benefits: “lowering costs, building community, accelerating discovery...
...Seattle-based Blue Origin in 2000 and started buying up a huge swath of land in West Texas near Van Horn, arousing the suspicions of locals. Bezos plans to build a spaceport and aerospace testing center at the desert site but is taking it "slow and steady." (His company motto is Gradatim ferociter, which roughly translated means "Step by step, fiercely.") It's unclear how much funding Bezos, 43, is putting into the venture, but he has been doing it the NASA way, spending huge amounts of money to hire engineering Ph.D.s...
...tension, financial problems, selfishness and misery." The early chapters gleefully kick over the rock of the American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards! And our motto is 'grab your money and run!'" Another story tells of how her little brother, who was a little too "sensitive" for such ambitious parents, suffered endless acrimony. His fantasy for his teddy bear was that "teddy wants...