Word: outperform
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...think, frankly, tighter numbers for us at the top of the ticket would probably be more mobilizing. I've heard people who say, 'I am not going to give any more money to that person, because he is so far ahead." And Democrats remain worried that the G.O.P. will outperform them at getting voters to the polls, much as the Republican turnout operation helped defy the oddsmakers in 2004. Both Democrats and Republicans say a ballot initiative to allow slot machine casino gambling in the state may help to turn out conservatives who would oppose it, although liberals may show...
...80GB iPod ($349) is up to 6.5 hours, guaranteeing the playback of one or two, if not three full-length features. That also means 20 hours of music. The 30GB iPod ($249) has shorter battery life-3.5 hours of video or 14 hours of music-but it manages to outperform its predecessor while being 30% thinner...
...story did make some predictions that turned out to be right. For instance, the new test favors girls more than the old one did. It is a long-standing tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall...
...story did make some predictions that turned out right. For instance, the new test favors girls more than the old test did. It is a long-standing tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall, thanks largely...
...Teachers in many of the nations that outperform the U.S. on student achievement tests--such as Japan, Denmark and the Czech Republic--tend to assign less homework than American teachers, but instructors in low-scoring countries like Greece, Thailand and Iran tend to pile...