Word: preciousness
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...playing these popular sports can also work against applicants, as they must compete against thousands of others athletes who are vying for their precious spot on the Harvard roster. In an effort to stand out to admissions committees, therefore, students often turn to fringe sports as a means of getting into college. Sports such as crew have seen a ten-fold increase in high-school participation in the past ten years...
Minutes it took two Thai men to swallow $6000 worth of precious gems in ten condoms in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country last week...
Even if the Secret Service insists on calling them victims, these people are nothing more than would-be criminals. Instead of devoting precious investigative resources to these scams, our government should transfer that effort to tracking down Osama bin Laden, finding the anthrax mailer, or at the very least, scouring corporate tax statements...
...grew more accomplished and serious, she became a member of the Woodstock Artists Association, gaining valuable contacts and a deeper knowledge of the field. Working 25 to 30 hours a week, she makes a small profit by exhibiting and selling her paintings and prints. "This is very precious to me," Goldberg says. "Coming from a bureaucracy and a very organized kind of workplace made this endeavor both a real pleasure and an adjustment. I had to organize my time and be very self-motivated...
...evidence cited by police is at best circumstantial but intriguing. Investigators found 100 spent shells in the area of the attack, yet the poorly armed rebels are not known to waste precious ammunition. In addition, the military produced the body of an unidentified Papua man shot by soldiers the day after the ambush, and claimed it was one of the assailants. But an examination of the corpse revealed that not only had the man been dead longer than the military insisted, he also had a medical condition?massive enlargement of the testicles?that would have made it difficult...