Word: strength
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...words to the ditty dedicated to John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy and the first in the family to have "the gift" for politics almost a century ago. Honey Fitz was a talker, a charmer, a politician who made it largely on the strength of his charisma. As the first mayor of Boston whose parents were born in Ireland, and the first Roman Catholic in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fitzgerald was noted for having developed "the Irish switch"--the art of shaking hands with one person while talking to another...
...unfair and inaccurate of your reporter to accuse a faculty member of violating a "new B-school rule" when that rule is non-existent. What was passed was a student resolution. The strength of the resolution does not depend upon the Faculty but upon the students who have chosen to bind together in refusing to release grade information to recruiters...
...test for steroids. Lewis seemed to be headed for another gold in the 200 meters, but was inched out at the tape by his teammate and friend Joe DeLoach. "Now the world knows how well Joe is running," Lewis said after the race. "At the end, he had more strength." The bitterest frustration, however, came when the anchor man on the U.S. B team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing...
...Journal of Medicine that "as many as 1 million athletes" in the U.S. alone are using anabolic steroids. Sprinters like Johnson, who rely on large muscles for bursts of power, are believed to be turning more and more to steroids. In football, the remarkable rise in the size and strength of linemen is often attributed to extensive steroid use. In weight lifting and bodybuilding, steroid consumption is pandemic...
...main cause of Harvard's poor start is inexperience. After losing the first four games of the season, Harvard has had to rethink its line-up, relying on the strength of six freshmen...