Word: par
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson is entering its first season of the post-Jeff Zimmerman era. Zimmerman was the team's two-meter man par excellence for the past three seasons, posting some gaudy statistics along the way: last season he tallied 98 goals and 36 assists. In addition, he was a rudder for a program that has steadily developed into one of the east's best over the past seven years...
...been doing in our kitchens all these years if not some species of work? No one receives AFDC payments without having at least one child to feed, wash, dress and pick up after, and the assumption of the welfare reformers seems to be that these activities are on a par with bonbon consumption. In the conceptual framework that holds that welfare mothers "don't work," affluent married homemakers can't rank much higher than courtesans...
...getting the library system technologically up to par will not necessarily mean easier or improved access to the facts and figures buried in card catalogues...
...funds could add to the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services' overburdened staff and bring Harvard closer to a par with schools like MIT and Dartmouth...
...Perhaps so, but even by Wills' narrow definition of business leadership -- that it mostly has to do with selling -- someone like Bill Gates of Microsoft, who had much more originality than Perot and built a much more important company, might have been a stronger example of the corporate leader par excellence...