Word: optimum
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Perhaps, he would have been better off without revealing his methods. To prove a point that successful people use every moment to the optimum. Molloy randomly walked down a few airplane aisles. He found that 32.6 percent of the people in first class, but only 12 percent of those in coach, were working during the flight. "The relationship obvious," he says with triumph. Of course it is nothing of the sort. First class, because it is more expensive, arguably draws more people on business, who will have specific paperwork to hand in at the other in at the other...
...team did very well, considering the circumstances," coach Joe Bernal said afterwards. "We practiced before the meet, and it's hard to swim at your optimum when you're winning so handily." The squad, meanwhile, debated whether the members would get pizza or burgers as a post-victory treat...
...Reaganomics: "The reason we did it wrong-not wrong, but less than the optimum-was that we said, Hey, we have to get a program out fast. .. We were working in a 20-or 25-day time frame, and we didn't think it all the way through. We didn't add up all the numbers." In another part of the article: "The pieces were moving on independent tracks-the tax program, where we were going on spending, and the defense program, which was just a bunch of numbers written on a piece of paper...
...Playing a talented team that knocks the ball around a lot, the last thing we want to do is try to match them with precise passing," Ford said, adding that "the optimum situation for us is a one-on-one with Lance or Mauro as our target...
...wide synod called for the "purpose of opposing certain incipient tendencies towards Presbyterianism." The church was helpful not only as a standard of moral rectitude; it also set the boundaries of the city, in a manner described by Charles William Eliot II in S.B. Sutton's Cambridge Reconsidered: "The optimum area for a town was figured by the time-distance from a meeting house which would permit the farmer to milk his cows, harness old Dobbin, drive his family to the meeting house, endure a two-hour sermon berfore refreshment at the tavern, and drive home again to milk...