Unlike those first-tier players, Romo needs big-time targets and reliable protection to excel consistently.
Our IM teams excelled, we consistently won top honors in terms of academics, and we were involved in many important parts of MIT life (including the IFC and the Tech newspaper).
The widespread view that Torres is now in decline will certainly not bother Simeone, who has excelled in consistently extracting the highest possible level of performance out of an unheralded squad.
Chef Greg Vernick excels at creating consistently simple, fresh and refined fare that changes frequently, and includes an assortment of toasts, a raw bar, small and large plates and food roasted in the wood-fired oven.
Billy Collins, the only living poet who makes me want to read contemporary poetry; Dave Barry, who consistently excels at outrageous humor, the most difficult genre of all; Charles McCarry, whose espionage novels convince me that he knows everything in the world.
The heavyweight boxer Teófilo Stevenson is representative of another field in which Cubans have consistently excelled.
For example, Japanese auto companies have consistently excelled through their capabilities in lean manufacturing.
"Good morning, Mr. Whitfield," the children chant, welcoming A. B. Whitfield, who runs this 20-year-old private school where poor black and Hispanic youngsters consistently excel, compared with their public school counterparts.
Ordinary Chinese citizens often speak of sports in broad philosophical terms, especially when confronted with the fact that their national teams have not consistently excelled in the Olympic events that get the greatest attention.
Maddox had an impressive second half in his junior campaign, consistently excelling on the defensive end and averaging almost 10 points and six rebounds per game in the Ivy slate and the Tigers' three postseason games in the College Basketball Invitational.
Jasper Brinkley, who filled in at middle linebacker when E.J. Henderson broke his leg in 2009, may also get a look on the weak side, though he has a tendency to play too laterally and might not possess the fluidity to consistently excel in the flats.
