Word: courtships
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...This has only increased the time pressure on Faust, as the process of selecting a dean requires a long courtship, University leaders past and present...
...recent interview, former University President Neil L. Rudenstine recalled his courtship of Knowles...
...only one awake in this house on the night before the day that will change all our lives," she intones ominously. Tomorrow, she and Mike will confront the kids with wrenching news. Before disclosing it, she spends most of the book recounting her life before meeting Mike (comfortable), their courtship (cute), their work (she sells art, he runs a publishing firm), the houses they've inhabited (confusingly many), some nice family outings to the beach, a cat they once owned. Hurry, sunrise. When the momentous, life-altering revelation finally comes, the real surprise is that it's pretty lame. Sixteen...
...close the 5% gap between her and Sarkozy. She will no doubt try to make the most of her softer image, which may seem particularly welcome to voters wary of Sarkozy's daunting and sometimes disconcerting intensity. She will also need to ramp up her courtship of Bayrou's lieutenants, which has included a promise to assign ministerial posts to prospective allies from the UDF if it comes to her aid against Sarkozy. Many elected officials from the udf are open to persuasion by their historical allies on the right. But Bayrou's voters are another story: polls suggest Royal...
...their intimacy--platonic or otherwise--has mirrored for the ages the perilous courtship between the Native Americans and the early European colonists, a forced marriage of competing cultures and conflicting interests that, like so many other impassioned yet ultimately tragic affairs, began with great promise only to end in heartbreak...