Word: stamina
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...wear and tear of the four-match weekend took its toll on the Harvard women’s volleyball squad, as the squad fell to Northeastern, 3-1 (30-28, 29-31, 24-30, 19-30), yesterday evening at Lavietes Pavilion. “The mental stamina through four matches for the weekend is tough,” head coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We started out awesome, but they pushed at us, and we didn’t respond.” Hot off Saturday’s victories against Hartford (6-9) and NJIT...
...spent the year 2001 on a world tour seeing a different film every day (and wrote up this punishing experience in a wonderfully funny, thoughtful book, A Year at the Movies). Murphy is bound to have equaled or eclipsed my itinerary. And I couldn't touch him for stamina...
...very unhealthy, bohemian kind of life," says Murakami. "But I just wanted to do it differently." So he rises at 4 a.m. to write for hours before swimming or running, training for marathons and lately triathlons as well. Murakami says he needs the exercise to keep up his stamina for the draining work of writing - the prolificacy of his output is legendary - but there's also an element of physical pleasure in his declaration that he weighs as much now, aged 58, as he did in his late...
...Faculty deanship is considered one of the most demanding positions at Harvard, given the school’s size, its relative lack of high-level administrators to share the burden of decision-making, and the sheer stamina the job requires. The Faculty’s expenses exceeded $800 million in fiscal year 2005, and the school’s endowment of $12 billion tops Princeton University?...
...Admissions and Financial Aid, observes a significant overlap between military skills and ideal Business School qualities. “We ask all applicants to tell us about their leadership experiences and aspirations—those from the military usually have lots to tell about leadership, accountability, responsibility, stamina,” Leopold wrote in an e-mailed statement. According to Monterisi, the abilities he developed as a Marine formed a foundation for success as a business school student. “I have some great firsthand experience in the Marine Corps, but it’s a different world...