Word: demanding
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...precisely because seniors are (on average) better readers and writers that they will get more out of Senior Seminars than first-years. The faculty can be sure that difficult texts will be understood; they will not need to serve as writing teachers, who must correct split infinitives and demand parallel construction. On efficiency grounds--getting the best use of the senior faculty's time--Senior Seminars are clearly preferable to Freshman Seminars...
...State and Local Government Program helps leaders respond to the demand for reinvention and the need to provide public-private partnerships," former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts, director of the program, told the Gazette. "We are eager to incorporate the substantial experience and expertise the Fannie Mae Fellows will share with our program and their co-participants...
WHEN YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT, YOU don't go out and try to shut down every bakery and fast-food outlet in town; you go on a diet. U.S. authorities should realize that so long as there is a multibillion-dollar demand for drugs, lots of people will go to any lengths to profit from that demand. The war on drugs will never be won until the real enemy is confronted and attacked. PEDRO MARTIN COLEA Mexico City...
...answer lies in tradition. The abolition of grades would demand a gargantuan mental shift throughout the college. It is highly unlikely that such a radical solution to grade inflation will be accepted in the near future, if ever...
...difference between struggling and thriving," he said. "Every other Russian center in the U.S. is having fiscal problems. Now we can demand the best faculty as well as stability...