Word: swiftness
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...Before even glancing at grades or test scores, admissions officers at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, rate a student's personal statement. That first impression can color the whole discussion. The committee, for example, issued a swift rejection to a student whose essay was riddled with typos. After reading a moving tale of how one student bonded with a Chilean immigrant struggling to educate his children, assistant dean Debbie DeVeaux went to bat for the applicant: "I love this guy. I hope you love him as much...
CHARIOTS OF MUD Cue the inspiring music. Now slow it down. While the swift get their due, the steady go sadly unheralded. And so we salute Britain's CHRIS MADDOCKS, 43, the slowest athlete in the Games' slowest event. He came in last in the 50-km walk (31 miles), in just under five hours...
King said the letter he sent to Harvard and seven other universities shies away from confrontational language because the last letter secured swift cooperation from its recipients...
...effective crisis management, swift, decisive action, not to mention an appropriate level of contrition, is the name of the game today. Firestone has seemed slow and unresponsive, a legacy, perhaps, of its insular parent company in Japan, where consumers have few rights, and product-liability lawsuits hardly exist. Parent Bridgestone's CEO Yoichiro Kaizaki, who gained a tough-guy reputation in shaping the company's American strategy, has been all but invisible. He may be practicing what the Japanese call fugenjikko - no words, only action - but silence is deafening here. "I don't know how you cannot be available...
...focus and hunger to win paid swift dividends, as she won the Pan American championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994 and finished third in the 1995 world championships in her event, the epee. (Fencing has three events with slightly different blades and rules. In epee, you score by jabbing your opponent anywhere with the point of the weapon; in foil, you score only by touching point to torso; in saber, you score with any part of the blade but only above the waist.) The following year in Atlanta she won the gold in the inaugural epee category--and another gold...