Word: skills
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...also cited Stauffer’s “skill and commitment in working with undergraduate honors projects, trying to enable the students that he’s working with to do the very best that they...
...this together.” While he admits to feeling hungry most of the time, Downing’s dedication to the sport makes it worth it. “[Losing weight] adds another dimension,” he claims. Furthermore, Downing doesn’t think that his skill at the art of dropping pounds will dominate his life. “I think I’ll be fat by the time I’m 30,” he says...
...chaos at the starts,” Rodin said. “Watching ‘B’ division from the dock, there were times only half the division was on the line because of the shifts. Being at the right place was more influenced by luck than skill than in most races...
...understand Schwarzenegger's success, it's worth renting the 1977 film Pumping Iron, which featured his political and human skills in the body-building subculture. He outpsyched his opponents as well as out-trained them. He did a deeply American thing: he took a bohemian subculture and infused it with the hard-edged, competitive ethos of capitalism. He has played the popular culture with unerring skill ever since. He took Republican politics, married it to the glamour of the Kennedys and then exported that hybrid to California. This year he managed to rally the Republican base with an order...
...there’s the issue of competing in the Big East while being burdened with the numerous restrictions that Georgetown must place on its athletic programs in order to maintain its status as an academic institution. But something tells me that coming from Princeton, Thompson has developed a skill for recruiting and getting the most out of the types of athletes that Georgetown would be inclined to accept...