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...cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater to the tough-guy fantasies of the literati. Albert Camus, whose spare existential novels were influenced by U.S. detective fiction, looked like Humphrey Bogart portraying Sam Spade. Hemingway followed in the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ring Lardner. But it is hard to read such terse narratives as The Killers...
Among Hoy's recommendations are the creation of centers to keep track of the region's need for professionals in the various disciplines and setting up a regional program for career development to cater to professionals in expanding fields where demand is on the rise...
...MacPlus is designed to cater to the business community, Terp said, adding that quite a bit of what a "big university does is comparable to what a business does." Though she said that the MacPlus features are beyond what the average student is going to need, "there will be a few students, faculty, and administration officials who will find that kind of power attractive...
...presents I asked for in my letters. Each time I tore open a package expecting my Uzi, I found instead the He-Man/She-Ra Adventure Set, or a pair of socks. I asked my parents about this disparity, but they simply shrugged and said that Santa couldn't always cater to every child's needs...
From an administrative standpoint, department officials might reasonably argue that most courses cater to students' academic needs, or they wouldn't be offered. The department cannot be put in the position of having to draw lines, of having to decide which courses students believe integral to their knowledge of a specific field...