Word: slug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stocks are critical. Of 1,958 diversified stock funds, 673 were beating the S&P 500 through October. Only 16 of them have less than 5% in tech stocks, Morningstar reports. Since 1992 only 1 in 5 diversified funds that beat the market each year did so without a slug (at least 5%) in tech...
...with the new fourth meal, students can avoid strolling along side streets and listening to all that rambling chit chat. They can just slam down the books, dash over to the dining commons and slug down a "warm and fresh." It's a beautiful system, really. As sleek and efficient...
...empire long before the Muromanchi era; the threat of the Emishi's extinction introduces one of Princess Mononoke's major themes--that of threatened ways of life. Ashitaka goes on a journey to find where the Tartari Gemi came from--specifically to find what or who created the iron slug he finds in the Tartari Gemi's corpse. Eventually, he discovers a group of iron-workers destroying an ancient forest and killing its gods. He also meets Princess Mononoke, a human girl raised by Moro, a Wolf Goddess, who is engaged in a war with the humans of the ironworks...
...English professor Julia Lupton laments. "There are a lot of kids not getting reached." It would be difficult enough to get them to qualify under affirmative action, when schools could dip into lower test rungs to get promising students. With the end of those programs, however, the kids must slug it out in a highly competitive top-down system, with only the very best, across the board, getting into a U.C. campus. "We're talking about pushing kids to a 1200 SAT and 3.7. That's maybe three B's allowed," says Juan Lara, director of Irvine's Center...
Sophomore catcher Dane Sardinha bats .374 with 11 home runs and 56 RBI and has collected 85 hits, second-best in the conference. As a team, the Waves slug .494 to the Crimson's .426, and bat .326 to Harvard...