Word: actualizing
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These are three actual excuses which have been (and continue to be) used by those in the know. Use with caution. They're not original, but they're authentic, and no one ever said the CIA was like James Bond anyway. Come on, don't forget George Herbert Walker Bush was head of this blameless organization...
Professors with 500 students in their courses cannot give individual undergraduates the attention they deserve. Ideally, professors would take more responsibility for actual teaching, but in reality, the burden falls on teaching fellows, who come to play crucial roles. The leading of discussions, the grading of papers and exams, and the monitoring of lab sessions are left largely in the hands of TFs. Whether a student has a good or bad experience in a course depends in large part on the quality of his or her TF's instruction...
...please and as our ends may require--as it should be. But if we're really concerned with openminded dialogue, then we might attempt to actively avoid certain forms of argumentation which are simply counterproductive. The following is a provocative dramatization; any similarities to the argumentation techniques of actual people, living or dead, is completely intentional...
...explain why only five of the 11 were found guilty of manslaughter. Four were adjudged to be innocent on all counts, and two were convicted of weapons charges. Pressed to explain the jury's decision, Jahn said that perhaps the panel thought the cult members "who died were the actual conspirators and the ((defendants)) were merely tagalongs...
...Russians are poor-mouthing the SVR, claiming that it has cut its staff 40% over the past three years -- without giving any actual numbers -- and has closed 30 overseas stations. Even Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB general often critical of Russia's continuing intelligence operations, says Primakov "is in charge of a demoralized organization that is struggling for resources...