Word: notch
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Likewise, to the hundreds of companies that recruited graduates on campus this year, it seems equally absurd to suggest that Harvard’s curriculum is not top-notch...
James Devitt, a spokesperson for Columbia University, says the school’s location is often a selling point for top-notch professors...
...whole zoo conundrum: consolidation. Close down all the little local zoos and amusement areas; animals living at many of them are kept in terrible conditions. Then, open (or expand) three or four major, well-funded and -staffed refuge-style zoos. We can use the existing framework at the top-notch zoos in Washington, D.C. and San Diego, and then pinpoint another one or two locations with ample land and plenty of trained zoologists...
...restrained title track and the ballad I'm Alive, she has cast aside the chest beating of My Heart Will Go On. The 16 songs, credited to a long list of professional scribes, are mostly pap; there are the usual third-chorus key changes--take it up a notch!--and the lyrics are a bland word salad about love and renewal. But they're nontoxic and fine for singing along with in traffic...
...Monday, a violent Middle East weekend - Sharon on the warpath, Arafat under siege, two suicide bombings and 14 dead - finally shoved the issue back onto Wall Street's radar screens, with the markets ignoring encouraging words from the housing and manufacturing sectors to notch a down day for the the Dow. And Tuesday the fears solidified when Iraq urged its oil-producing Arab neighbors to "use oil as a weapon against the enemy" and cut the U.S. off without a drop...