Word: apt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With this degree of complexity involved, the committee's deliberations will not be simple and they are not apt to be quick. However, the president and I are as committed as the students to the goal of ensuring that Harvard's relationship with its workers at all levels is respectful and fair. Our compensation policies must reflect that goal. We believe that an appropriate process has been established to achieve those ends...
...better define under-trained, which you call us. I've had CPR, lifesaving and first aid courses numerous times. True, in recent years we have not had refresher courses. And if Harvard doesn't think enough of its faculty, staff and students to re-certify those who are most apt to be the first on the scene of a medical emergency, there is not much we guards, as a unit, can do about...
Lewinsky: What is hard for me to understand with this story is that I think...the word rape has a very different meaning and connotation today than it did 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, women were not apt to say no. And I'm not saying that means she asked for it. It sounds like it was an unpleasant experience...
...Sports Authority woo customers with batting cages, on-site golf pros and roller hockey games in the parking lot. Veer beyond the All-Clad pots offered at Williams-Sonoma and you might just stumble upon a cooking class. Walk into an Old Navy clothing store and you're apt to find clerks handing out tote bags for carrying merchandise, a soda fountain, and a billboard announcing the store's au courant motto: SHOPPING IS FUN AGAIN...
...Publishers Weekly blurb for the novel Billy Dead notes that it is "reminiscent of Dorothy Allison," and on the surface this comparison is very apt. Like Allison's most famous work, Bastard out of Carolina, Lisa Reardon's debut novel deals with the effect of abuse on the children of a working-class white family and is narrated by one of the children, Ray, now grown up. Ultimately, however, for various reasons Billy Dead is a weaker and less interesting work than its predecessor...