Word: crop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pulitzer prize-winning photographs--can you say "mug shot"? "Hey Jamie, we need a mug of Mr. Embezzler by six o'clock. "When I tried to make dramatic shots with interesting framing and intricate relationships between the subject and its environment, the editor would just crop it into a square. No riding in a helicopter to shoot rioting students, no breaking into buildings to shoot incriminating documents linking the Harvard administration to organized crime and not one swimsuit assignment. Instead there were lots of IOP speakers, "weather pics" and portraits, punctuated by the occasional Knitting Society shot...
...Regent Law School, which opened in 1987, is the largest. This year a crop of 335 students is being trained in what the catalog describes as "God's perspective on law"-an informal mix of traditional scholarship, Bible study and evangelical strategy. Regent students may not be getting the best legal education available-the percentage of the school's students who passed the July 1994 Virginia bar exam was the lowest in the state, and the institution is still only provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association-but they are receiving training that Robertson believes is essential. Himself...
Under Griswold, several noted, the Law School admitted its first crop of women, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who would go on to the U.S.Supreme Court...
...very least, if you read Maribuana Reconsidered, you can arm yourself with a few useful sets of statistics and some interesting cocktail party factoids. For instance, the sacred plant was so useful that Henry VIII required its cultivation by English farmers, and George Washington himself had a crop...
...better with time..." (more Copelandesque strains) Merle goes on to describe the painstaking process by which the "tobacco smooth enough to be Select" is cultivated and packaged. We follow the camera through Merle's tobacco fields to his barn, where another man cuts and dries the tobacco leaves. The crop will become Wintson Select's "Perfectly Aged Tobacco," rolled into cigarettes and smoked by hardy consumers who will eventually get cancer...