Word: certain
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...welfare in a predominantly black area. Twelve years ago I began selling real estate, and I have since became quite successful at it. I began my own company to rehabilitate housing. I have overcome all obstacles to achieve my goals. However, I have lost government contracts which I am certain is due to affirmative action programs. Meanwhile, I've seen quite privileged women or better off blacks get those contracts. I am a much more common story than you would like to acknowledge. I believe affirmative action is a new method of class exploitation. It is evil...
...There are certain fields [such as math and hard sciences] where the idea of an undergraduate writing a thesis doesn't make sense" because the issues are often too complicated for undergraduate research, Maskin said...
...Knowles has made very profound contributionsthat shake the scientific world to the core--theway people look at certain really importantproblems," Verdine said...
Call it the macho critique of Clinton: the feeling among certain red-blooded types that any world leader who'd schedule his quickies through his secretary, cuddle his cutie in front of TV cameras and allegedly try to buy her loyalty with assorted knickknacks and a hatpin instead of, say, a new Camaro convertible, isn't, to judge by his street smarts, much worth following. Kinky trysts in the White House are one thing. Placing a phone call as your mistress pleasures you is something else entirely...
...Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain routines in the face of this most exigent of interruptions; the desire to speak certain truths before it's too late and the fear of what consequences such candor might have; the politesse with which you must cover the outrage you feel as the rest of the world glides on about its business while an important part of yours is painfully, poignantly shutting down...