Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editor's work is never done. Or so it seems in the September issue of George, in which JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. goes to great lengths to boost his magazine's circulation. To complement the cover photo of a nude Kate Moss as Eve, Kennedy sits bare-chested and bare-kneed in dark shadow, gazing pensively at an apple. In the editor's letter, he ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal...
...Women faculty at the Kennedy School were particularly concerned that any project fit usefully into ongoing projects in the United States and around the world and complement existing interests of faculty and students not only at the Kennedy School but in other schools at the University," she said...
...have noted above, the conclusion is a necessary final complement to the perfect essay. It is the icing on a seven layer cake. Previously, the author had made his or her case by carefully adding layer upon layer, certain to keep each stable enough for the others to stand upon. Each layer had been applied in a coherent order beginning with the thesis. If the thesis had been "sponge," the subsequent layers would have been "cream," "sponge," "cream," "sponge," "cream" and then "sponge." And the conclusion to such an essay--if it were to be a perfect essay...
...solid core of freshmen emerged to complement the veteran senior pool...
...captains complement each other, both on the scoreboard and off. "Luis is the one who plays well; I deal more with the people on the team," Boyda said. "It's a good relationship...