Word: tune-up
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...hosts also toted in a big incentive to win, as they needed a victory to clinch a spot in their divisional invitational tournament. For the visitors, it was nothing more than another tune-up for next weekend's Ivy Tournament...
...matter of weeks while others have been waiting up to two years, the Times of London observed primly that in England "queue jumping is frowned upon." There are other critics. After setting a British junior record against an undistinguished field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play the national anthem, would she feel she had won for Britain or South Africa...
...Dowinterizing" consists of taking the air conditioning unit apart and giving it a "tune-up," he explained...
...used the Navy game as a last minute tune-up," the older Dinneen said adding. "We had Princeton on our minds...
...vision towards that one timespan has cost it dearly. Colleges across the nation are reporting illiteracy and academic incompetence to be so high among high school graduates that at least one school, the University of Texas at Austin, has begun matching many "no go" 18-year-olds back for tune-up math work. The dismaying caliber of the nation's pre-freshmen has spawned two curriculum reform proposals that promise a return to the days when high school grads could be counted on to do simple arithmetic and read had signs. But one panacea suffers from dreamy idealism...