Word: nubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nub, the Crux is this: guys like Ballesteros and Montgomerie and now Sergio love this stuff--one on one, each hole a shoot-out--and many of the U.S. pros do not. The ever helpful Monty explained, "We all come from more of a teamlike society than the Americans. They are brought up to be individuals, which isn't wrong of course. It's just the way they are." Duval can only counter with, "I don't see it as the be-all, end-all," and Woods has said of his Ryder experience, "I played in only one and didn...
Growing up in the South, each must have known people like the other: the golden boy for whom everything came easily and the grind who worked himself to the nub. The one who cut corners and the one who squared them. The one who never got caught and the one who never did anything worth catching...
This is where education becomes private; this is the nub of it. It is out of sync with the conventional images of education in America. Write about those images: the teacher is a pale, bloodless deacon, drained by unrequited longings, preposterous, out of things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...thing they almost always appeared to do was grow shorter. Each time a cell divided, the daughter cells it produced had a little less telomere to play with. Finally, when the cell reached its Hayflick limit of 100 or so replications, the telomere was reduced to a mere nub. At that point, the cell quit replicating. Once it did, researchers theorized, the genes previously covered by the telomere became exposed and active, producing proteins that triggered the tissue deterioration associated with aging...
...solution to these problems, as symbolized (somewhat unfairly) by President Clinton's health-care plan of 1993. Thus the temptation of this year's leading health-care proposal, jointly sponsored by Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. The 46 co-sponsors cover the ideological spectrum. The nub of the Kassebaum-Kennedy approach is to limit insurance companies' freedom to refuse or drop customers they consider to be bad risks. In other words, it attempts to achieve the goals of socialism through the method of insurance...