Word: par
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only did the team nab a first-place finish at the Greater Boston Championships in April, but Gonzalez stole the show at the Ivy League Golf Championships three days earlier by nabbing the Individual Medal with a two-day, three-over-par 73 performance...
...this has made you interested in bringing your moral life up to par with your professional training, let me humbly offer a few suggestions. Next Sunday night at 8 p.m., don't watch "The Simpsons." Watch "Touched by an Angel" instead. More importantly, thank your parents for bringing you into the world and for sacrificing so much to keep you here. Find a code of morality, or perhaps reacquaint yourself with the religious tradition of your forebears...
Fleming Companies, an Oklahoma City-based wholesale food distributor and owner of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket franchise, has developed a concept called Chef's Cupboard in 150 of its markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw...
...that reported cases of chlamydia on campus have increased dramatically should serve as a wake-up call to Harvard students. We may do well academically, but it takes more than intelligence to change behavior. In the delicate realm of sexual activity, Harvard students seem to be on a dismal par with their peers, mirroring a national trend of increases in the number of reported cases of chlamydia. The trend underlying the reported increase in chlamydia cases is disturbing, for it indicates that there are still too many people having unprotected sex. Sex without protection puts people at risk not only...
...Since those were supposed to be Biondi's strengths, the move was widely regarded as emasculating Biondi. Bronfman has pointed out that Seagram's 45% stake in Diller's firm has soared more than $1 billion in value. Biondi soldiers on, noting that Universal's profits are on a par with the industry. He adds, "And we expect continued strong growth in profitability--on the order of 20% a year--for the next two years...