Word: actualizations
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Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never be definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...
After 130 years of staid blacks and musty grays, The Harvard Crimson features actual crimson—and the full spectrum of colors—on its front page today, marking a new era for the University’s daily newspaper...
...spending goes down only 10¢ for every dollar of tax cuts (hardly pessimistic, given that there is no actual evidence that tax cuts drive down spending at all), we're in deep, deep doo-doo. Government spending is almost 10% higher (yes, higher) after 20 years, and the equivalent of more than $5 trillion has been added to the national debt...
...story Henry Grunwald tells in his novel A Saint, More or Less (Random House; 234 pages) is a bit more complicated. It's based on an actual historical incident. Around 1594, a young woman of mysterious origins named Nicole Tavernier arrived in Paris and rapidly acquired a reputation for extraordinary faith and mystical healing powers. In a matter of weeks she had been taken up by the aristocracy, enjoyed an audience with the archbishop and organized a grand religious procession through the city...
This complaint will not be ameliorated by the new system, Doyle said, because coursepack prices have never been related to the distribution system. Rather, she said, the prices are due to the cost of purchasing copyrights and producing the actual books...