Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a neglect of the obvious to write about America without mentioning Tocqueville, or Africa without a nod to Conrad. Those authors are not only fixed points to steer by but fetishes that protect a writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead...
ERNIE CHRISTIAN, former deputy secretary of the Treasury for tax policy during Connally's tenure, now the top tax technician at Patten, Biggs and Blow, seemed to understand that the tax plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to shell out the bucks. And he seemed a little confused that the politicians hadn't liked the tax credit plan better. After all, doing business through the tax code, which he called the guts of the economy, with fancy formulas and convoluted reasoning, is the best way to throw...
Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said yesterday the test will show "how in general freshmen write before they get started...
...will send a barrage of letters to faculty members this year to establish links with academic departments and to get professors working on the program, Kyriazis said. SHS advisors are not supposed to give official academic advice, Kyriazis added...
Kyriazis called SHS a "no-loss proposition." If freshmen get an added perspective through advice on the University from upperclassmen, it is their gain, he said...