Word: tiered
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...figure skaters as they practiced. Deakin and Cobley asked the skaters to complete diaries about their practice habits. The researchers found that élite skaters spent 68% of their sessions practicing jumps - one of the riskiest and most demanding parts of figure-skating routines. Skaters in a second tier, who were just as experienced in terms of years, spent only 48% of their time on jumps, and they rested more often. As Deakin and her colleagues write in the Cambridge Handbook, "All skaters spent considerably more time practicing jumps that already existed in their repertoire and less time on jumps...
...stay competitive in attracting top-tier students, universities have begun to compete in an arms race over facilities. Our beloved Harvard is of course no exception. From Lamont Café, where students can acquire the caffeine they need to continue the cycle of self-destructive study habits (without even going outside!), to the Fogg Museum, where students are only a short walk away from being able to stab a priceless piece of art in brief spurt of psychological madness, our campus’s facilities shine. However, Harvard outdoes its peers by far with its river housing: Just two weeks...
...route to the team’s three-goal victory. “We were really excited from how we performed on Saturday,” Snyder said. “[Despite the loss], we really showed that we’re tough and can hang with those top tier teams.”The Crimson did show some promise, converting all its power-play attempts and getting solid contributions from the younger players on the squad, including freshman Patricia Smith (one goal, three steals). HARVARD 14, WAGNER 13Harvard was cruising to a seemingly easy victory over Wagner...
...Harvard women’s squash team (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) continued its struggles against top-tier opponents, dropping weekend matches to No. 1 Penn (12-0, 5-0 Ivy) and No. 2 Princeton (7-1, 5-1 Ivy), 5-4 and 6-3, respectively at the Barnaby Courts. The team was undefeated heading into last Wednesday’s matchup against No. 5 Trinity, but fell to the Bantams, 7-2 to record its first loss of the season. With the weekend losses, the Crimson heads into its final regular season contest against Yale on a three-game...
...Kerviel, 31, a futures trader from a second-tier business school, had worked at Socit Gnrale since...