Word: arrays
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...whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution" and its sagging predecessor. General Education. And students, as Keller seems implicitly aware throughout her narrative...
What Henry Ford said of his famed Model T had long been just as true of the telephone: Americans could have it in any color they wanted, as long as it was black. Those plain, hardy phones later evolved into a rainbow-hued array of shapes and sizes, but the instrument's electronic heart remained essentially unchanged. Now, however, the familiar telephone is undergoing rapid and dramatic improvements. Among them...
XICA MONOPOLIZES the flurry of extravagant images. As her power increases, so does her array of costumes and assorted wigs. In each new scene, her dressings increasingly drown out her blackness. And in one scene, she even paints her face white, thus underlining her incongruous position in the governor's household...
...started out like a routine call. Police in Columbus received a tip that a man was loitering outside a north-side town house. When the officers arrived, the intruder was inside with a ski mask and an array of burglary tools. Arrested was an improbable suspect: Dr. Edward Jackson, 38, a prominent local internist. The case be came even more improbable after the police searched Jackson's car. There they found a long list of rape victims, leading them to believe that Jackson was the "Grandville rapist," suspected of nearly 100 assaults in that affluent neighbor hood. Last week...
...group, the three QBs have hit just 32 of 66 passes for only 353 yards and two TDs in three contests, and an array of injuries will keep most of the Cadets first string receivers cut of today's game further curtailing the aerial drives...