Word: consultive
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...expect in the next several months, before taking over the University, to visit Cambridge often to consult very widely. Before I do much more speaking, I'll be doing much more listening," Summers said...
...probe for this essence, officers now pore over transcripts, parse teacher recommendations and consult regularly with high school guidance counselors. Then they gather for closed-door deliberations that range from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests...
HARD-PRESSED The world is rich with wine snobs, but there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...This was just an exercise in common sense," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail. "It seemed that some Faculty might not make it in today or tomorrow, making it hard for students to consult with them or to obtain necessary permissions, so after a brief consultation with the Registrar and a few others we decided just to let students turn in their forms a bit late...
...seems a shame that the Taliban did not consult us. We might have made a deal. There are so many contemporary Western works of art we would gladly have contributed to an auto...