Word: padded
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...Chicago State guard Jasmin Dixon helped pad the lead with 13 points in the second frame, including 11 consecutive points over a six-minute stretch that gave the Cougars a 41-33 lead with 13:46 to play...
...college include far more than statistics about retention rates, average SAT scores, and faculty-to-student ratios. The U.S. News ranking in particular encourages bad choices and an unhealthy focus on prestige and elitism. If the list is useful for anything at all, it would only be to pad the egos of those schools that end up high on the list or higher than they expected—not for simplifying the college search for confused high school students.Harvard should do all it can to contribute to the list’s demise by refusing to participate. Seeing as Harvard?...
...know. But even if you can't get to a StoryCorps site, I really encourage people to take time during the holidays and grab a relative and go into a quiet room, close the door, and if you have a video recorder or a tape recorder or just a pad and pencil, take 40 minutes, 50 minutes or an hour and just ask them about their lives...It's a hectic time, but the greatest gift you can give is this gift of listening...
While Tanjeloff clearly enjoys his work, he scoffs at over-achieving students who start companies simply to pad their resumes. “It takes a lot of time,” he says. “It’s a risk. It takes a really special type of person.” Regarding how his entrepreneurial ventures play into his future plans, Tanjeloff modestly adds, “I hope that it gives...
2nd/7:40: Big Red winger Colin Greenings launches a shot that Richter saves with his pad and looks to stuff the rebound past the sprawled goaltender, but Richter makes an amazing pad stop...