Word: notch
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...Notch up another nine for the Harvard ski team. Continuing its streak, the Crimson came in ninth for the seventh time in as many contests this weekend at the University of Vermont Carnival. With the alpine team competing at Stowe and the Nordic side at the Trapp Family Lodge, Harvard edged St Michael’s and Bowdoin with a total score of 186.0 points. “I think we had one of our best weekends ever as far as team improvement has gone since I’ve been there in five years,” Nordic coach...
...never be encouraged to focus on their pedagogy until their efforts translate into more than titles and pats on the back. Instead, we support the system endorsed by the Task Force’s report to base adjustments in pay scale—currently only the product of top-notch research—equally between research and teaching. The proposed grants for teaching are also a step in the right direction.Nothing in academia, however, is more coveted than career advancement. Harvard purports to factor teaching into tenure decisions and has added more documentation of teaching ability to tenure reviews...
...want to know what that is." Then the particulars: "Your glasses are fine. You could go to a slightly hipper style without being funky. Let me see your watch. What kind is it?" A Citizen. "It's an O.K. watch, but if you want to move it up a notch, you have to move up your watch a notch." My carrying case, admittedly plain, needs to go. Get a Coach bag, she advises. I need to upgrade my pen too: a Cross or a Montblanc would be nice...
...turned aside 38 shots to get the better of their showdown.Kessler figures to get the start and a chance at redemption tonight, after sophomore Brittany Martin played in the squad’s last outing on Saturday. Stone has been enjoying the luxury of depth, having the two top-notch goalies take turns between the pipes for the past two months. Martin ranks second nationally with a 1.29 goals against average; Kessler is just hundredths of a score behind at 1.32. Whoever gets the nod will be charged with keeping the fourth-ranked Dartmouth offense, which enters the weekend averaging...
...city with orchestrated attacks against Sunnis. Sadr even managed to cast an ominous voice into Hussein's death chamber, where Sadr loyalists among the government witnesses of the hanging chanted "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada" as a taunt to the former dictator moments before he died. The scene added yet another notch in the tension building between U.S. forces and the Mahdi Army, leaving many wondering how long the two sides will eye each other before flying into open conflict...