Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noticably livid, Marsh mumbled about the rink, the fans, the Crimson's work ethic, Harvard's recruiting skill...
...what went wrong? Harvard's explanation--that consistency wins games--implies that the Crimson has the talent and skill to win against any opponent. That's a troubling assumption...
...also reach right through cell membranes to grab specialized structures known as organelles and twirl them around. Currently, researchers are using the technology to measure the mechanical force exerted by a single molecule of myosin, one of the muscle proteins responsible for motion. Scientists are also examining the swimming skill of an individual sperm. "One day," imagines Michael Berns, director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California at Irvine, "we may be able to pick up a live sperm and stuff it right into...
...write of 1991 as America's best year since 1945. (They are not deflected from such judgments by GNP declines of 0.76%.) The year began, after all, with the most smashing military victory this side of Agincourt, a victory that demonstrated not just American military prowess but also diplomatic skill, technological pre- eminence and national will. And the year ended with the collapse, indeed the total evaporation of America's most implacable foe, a global giant that had vowed to bury us and spent the better part of 45 years trying...
...result of that skill has been an American success story. Smith, a Forbes 400 millionaire with assets recently estimated at approximately $460 million, grew a family-run chain of drive-in movie theaters into a conglomerate that now includes the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich publishing house and a 60 percent interest in the Nieman Marcus Group...