Word: expendable
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...have one-upped “C-minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation, the speaker has changed but the substance (or lack thereof) hasn’t. (Earth to the president: We may not be as smart as our transcripts say we are, but we’re certainly...
...want to avoid and why they are trying to open up discussion more in the future. Paintball is just a small step in bringing the groups together in a fun environment. “If you are going to believe something, then make it a challenge, expend some energy, because beliefs are some of the most important things,” Smith said. “Once they see we are not godless heathens and once we see they are not out to put us on the rack, discussions are going to go much further...
...major networks' new hit sitcoms star black men. This would not have been news in the era of mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey...
...intrigue continue to pile up in the wings. And the death of Cliff Baxter may well prove totemic by the time it's all said and done - there's so much we don't know, and so many who didn't want us to know it, that if lawmakers expend all their energy chasing the ghosts of Enron instead of cleaning up the laws involved, it may find that after all the sound and fury they've learned little and cured less...
...early, rather than shipping them off to other schools and then welcoming them back 10 or 15 years later, Harvard will be able to benefit from the decades of their careers that normally go to the benefit of other universities. Small departments often do not have the manpower to expend the time needed to make senior appointments; while tenuring internal candidates does not increase the overall size of the Faculty, it will break this vicious cycle and shift the burden of the search process onto junior appointments, which are typically easier to conduct...