the three R's
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Gasca has three two-way players who have been three-year starters and is calling them the three R’s — Rashawn Jackson, Robert Lamar and Romeo Signore.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2022
In an article in Wired magazine in 1993, he dismissed the three R’s — reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — as outmoded.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016
When it comes to borrowed money, I suggest deploying the three R’s – reorganize, retire and refinance.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015
Usually we think of the three R’s, but those are skills.
From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2015
Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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