Word: following
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First-years who enter as humanities concentrators in pursuit of a medical degree often decide not to follow through with their pre-med aspirations...
...they "want to make a breakthrough," thereby introducing others to Landmark. On graduation night participants were encouraged to bring guests, who were then led away to learn more and sign on. From Day 1, attendants were told that for a limited time, the Forum's tuition included a $95 follow-up, "The Forum in Action." The crowd was also repeatedly invited to sign up for the $700 "Advanced Course." Act now and get a $100 discount...
...first job as Premier will be to steel China against the pressure to follow in its neighbors' footsteps and devalue its renminbi trading currency. Those competing economies have a step up on Beijing, whose goods are relatively more expensive. Chinese sales to the rest of Asia fell 1.4% in January compared with 1997, and as South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia flood the world with cheap goods, China's trade with the West will take a beating. If Beijing ultimately succumbs and devalues its currency, the move will probably force Hong Kong to do the same, which could trigger...
...they didn't work. "I don't think they get it," says Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, whose state received $70,000. "Microsoft is now a monopoly," he says. "But they have not adjusted to the fact that they now have to follow different rules...
...that he suffered while (hmmm...) fooling around in a Washington hotel with (uh oh!) a White House aide. Two years later, in The American President, Michael Douglas is a widower, which means his bumpy courtship of lobbyist Annette Bening is within the rules. All the same, by letting us follow the happy couple into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer...