Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is more than just keeping our [GBL] record perfect," said Vierra, who scored the winning run. "I hope that it's going to carry over into this weekend," when Harvard hosts Yale and Brown, he added...
...London is everything I wanted it to be," says Bonnie Graham, a Temple University attorney, who is making her first trip to Britain. "I love it. I love it. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's perfect." "It's great, it's just great. We're not sleeping at all," says Carol Arend, a French teacher from Clarkston, Mich., as she sips a drink on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. In the four days since she arrived with a group of 35 students and teachers, she has done Chartres, the Loire valley chateaux, a champagne cellar near Reims...
...four-year-old Princeton Review tutoring service has headquarters in New York City and branch offices in four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points (a perfect SAT mark is 1600; the national norm is 897, or 471 on mathematics and 426 on verbal skills). Katzman's top students, writes Owen, show average gains of 250 points. In singling out the Princeton Review, Owen gives scant attention to longer-established coaching services, like the 47-year...
...ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs. Thus the square root of 4 is no good for the middle-to-hard portion of an SAT, since anyone may guess the right answer to be 2. But the square root of 9 is perfect: easy if you know your algebra (the answer: 3), hard if you don't, and about a 50% guessing shot for Joe, whose chances may be reduced by a deceptive, tempting answer that E.T.S. calls a "distractor." A typical distractor in the stickier part of a math section...
Last year Presz went 7-0, with a 4.89 ERA. He became the third Harvard pitcher since 1927 to compile a perfect won-lost record...