Word: elicited
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...said in my now-infamous article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (January 6, p. B1), by rewarding mediocrity we discourage excellence. An A should be a goal worth striving for, not something to be taken for granted. In discounting the possibility that grading policy can be used to elicit better work, Ms. Reiter demonstrates beyond all doubt that she has never taught Harvard students. Here, as elsewhere, easy grading breeds apathy...
...that Thurgood Marshall's sucessor should be Black had their demand of color met at the expense of ideology; they were greeted with the one of the most conservative nominees of recent memory. Again, due to what happened to Bork, Thomas was without the judicial qualification that used to elicit a Supreme Court nomination...
...wouldn't say [Harvard had] any influence with respect to the details," Lund said. "They were certainly cooperative in indicating to us ways in which the form did not elicit information in the way that most institutions now collect...
...money was appropriated, the school was built, and some good was accomplished, albeit by foul means. Justice Marshall's telling of this story could elicit laughs. But it also imprinted upon the minds of scores of clerks the degradations that the Justice -- and many millions of other blacks -- had had to endure...
...propose to drive Serbia out of Bosnia; and 3) the better way to prevent a general Balkan war is a partition of Bosnia coupled with a "red line" drawn at Kosovo and Macedonia, a strong warning to Serbia that aggression there, which would indeed engage vital American interests, would elicit a massive, Baghdad-like military response against Belgrade...