Word: honored
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Since then, the group has expanded considerably and has performed at such auspicious occasions as a luncheon honoring Prince Charles during last year's 350th anniversary celebration. To honor both the University and the British prince, the group played music that was at least 350 years old, including a piece composed by Henry VIII...
...principle of paying back your debts remains one of the foundations of our society. Enforcement of contracts is one of the primary functions of the modern liberal state. What would happen if banks refused to honor their checks or the government stopped paying interest on savings bonds? It is disturbing that college graduates, the future leaders of America, pay such disregard to one of the basic tenets of our society...
...universities can do more to solve the debt problem by counseling borrowers and by supplementing financial aid packages out of their own coffers. Perhaps more effective ethics instruction in the Core could better educate students about their social obligations. But completely cutting off schools where some students fail to honor their loans only penalizes the great majority of incoming students who would...
...black Halloween outfit, the 19-month-old child chirped "Trick or treat!" at a press conference in Midland Memorial Hospital. Bandages covered her forehead and right foot; doctors hope to begin skin grafts this week to repair the wounds. Midland celebrated the happy ending with a parade to honor the 400 people who took part in the rescue...
...guests of honor are three odd couples: Sammy (Ayub Khan Din), a Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire...