Word: establishes
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...thesis advisor should be knowledgeable about your subject and should be familiar with what your particular department expects in a senior honors essay. However, it is even more important that your advisor is willing to spend hours helping you improve your thesis and is someone with whom you can establish a good rapport. Thus, asking a high-profile professor to advise you may be a terrible mistake. If your advisor does not have enough time to spend guiding your work, you will inevitably end up frustrated. Furthermore, enduring the criticism of an advisor with whom you do not get along...
...everyone's purse as petty officials, communist bureaucrats, soldiers and policemen, middlemen and hucksters greedily siphon off anything they can stuff into their own pockets. The protests that rocked the communist government in 1989 were in part fueled by popular resentment of endemic financial chicanery. Today the failure to establish political or judicial systems that can check corruption is stirring widespread public anger once again...
...once. Though Mao's guerrilla strategy was in strong disfavor with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng was ousted along with...
...Center in Beaverton have successfully cloned a rhesus monkey. Unlike Dolly, the wonder sheep who was cloned from an adult animal, the monkeys were duplicated at the embryonic stage, a less dramatic breakthrough. But the success in cloning a primate has researchers salivating. "What we want to do is establish an immortal cell line, something like an embryonic stem cell line, where you can produce literally unlimited numbers of these things," Donald Wolf, a senior scientist at the center, said at a news conference Sunday. Those "things" figure to take some guesswork out of medical research, since scientists working with...
...would like to establish a confidential support group to give individuals a low-down on the Ad Board," said Quiroz. "While the [assistant] dean pleads your case, she's not your confidant...