Word: considerable
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The suit pursuit came to light when the State Department, alarmed by reports that the five-term Congressman had sexually accosted a Peace Corps volunteer during a fact-finding mission to Zaire last March, asked other embassies that have played host to Savage about his activities. Two congressional committees are...
Most participants and coordinators of the summer programs at the Ed School consider the most valuable aspect of these programs to be the opportunity for a frank discussion of educational problems among peers from around the country.
Other crash scenes have been more ghoulish. After 137 people died in the Aug. 2, 1985, crash of a Delta L-1011 at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, legions of lawyers sought business amid the chaos, scurrying among emergency- relief workers and hospital aides. They even tramped through the halls...
Though such a pessimistic assessment is implied throughout A Common Destiny, it is never stated with such sweeping clarity. Instead, the authors prefer to present their findings in the numbing language of social science. "Since the early 1970s," the study states, "the economic status of blacks relative to whites has...
Folly. Or stupidity? I consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all...