Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball and force shots from 30 feet. My inner coach wants to bench all these Michael Jordan wannabes. But it's a lost cause...
...second offer to plead guilty in exchange for his life. But Reno's men turned down the deal because it left a remote chance Kaczynski could someday go free. The court is still considering the issue of Kaczynski's competency, and if the Unabomber suspect were found mentally unfit, any plea bargain deal would go out of the window. That would not automatically give Kaczynski a get-out-of-jail-free card, but the possibility exists...
...parent hoping for a child, these new methods may represent God, as your article so clearly points out. But by utilizing such enhanced methods of fertility, we are going against the very basic principles of evolution. If the aim of evolution is to screen out unfit genes from a population and aid the perpetuation of superior genes, artificially induced fertility may bring with it a multitude of unforeseen repercussions. Regardless of how tempting reproductive therapy is, we won't know the negative side effects of this technology until we come to a stage at which we may not be able...
...would argue that the media will never be able to educate people to make them the kinds of citizens that the Founding Fathers had in mind," he said. "The media is structurally unfit to serve this purpose...
...present and accounted for: the elite military unit; the brutal training program; the sadistic topkick; the misfit recruit, seemingly unfit for hazardous duty--especially since the rest of the troops distrust, even despise...