Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deny to yourself the entire range of Everycoach's favorite truisms, from "We're taking it one game at a time," to "The season isn't a sprint, it's a marathon." It also denies the logic of playing a 30-game season when you might as well skip straight to the playoffs, stopping only for the Beanpot along the way, unless your team is good enough to merit consideration as an at-large addition to the 12-team NCAA tournament field...
...skip lunch. In addition to giving your body a stretch, breaking for lunch will take your mind off your work and improve your concentration in the long run. To this end, UHS recommends students eat with friends and other students...
...serious about art history or you find the Italian Renaissance fascinating, you won't mind the wait. If not, skip the special exhibit and enjoy the rest of the museum, which is amazing in and of itself...
These funds, which were established by Simpson's financial adviser, Leroy ("Skip") Taft, back in the early 1980s, cannot be touched by outsiders even if Simpson files for bankruptcy. Yet they can easily be turned into cash for Simpson's own use prior to retirement. He can borrow from his retirement funds, and has already done so on several occasions. Simpson can use these funds to buy real estate, something he has done repeatedly in the past. And the pensions begin to pay off their untouchable annuities five years from now, when Simpson turns...
...from me at Harvard sophomore year," he says. "He'd play poker until 6 in the morning, then I'd run into him at breakfast and discuss applied mathematics." They took graduate-level math and economics courses together, but Gates had an odd approach toward his classes: he would skip the lectures of those he was taking and audit the lectures of those he wasn't, then spend the period before each exam cramming. "He's the smartest guy I've ever met," says Ballmer, 40, continuing the unbroken sequence of people who make that point early in an interview...