Word: impetuses
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...address co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, Jordan began by explaining the impetus for his new book, entitled Vernon Can Read...
...this I mean living not only with little regard for the larger destinies of mankind but also outside the stories, lessons and issues that locate a people within significant patterns of human thought. Now a group of savage zealots has flung us back into history, and however unjust the impetus, we could make use of the experience...
...find myself saying I've always lived alone, even when I was with other people. My relationship with my dad [a well-known columnist for LIFE magazine] was somewhat competitive, but I had an easier time with my mom. She and I were best friends. She was a big impetus for my career. She loved to come to shows! She loved to be singled out in the audience. She was very proud of the successes of the men in her life. More recently she would come and see my son Rufus in school plays at boarding school...
...could be the end of an era. Than again, it could also be just the impetus George Steinbrenner needs to shell out even more cash to sign Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon away from the A’s and Moises Alou from the Astros, thereby extending the Yankees’ reign for another five years. But if I had to bet, I’d pick the first scenario, especially given the unpredictability of the MLB regular season, not to mention the three rounds of postseason play that exist with the wild-card...
...male and female applicants. Today, Harvard women are able to enroll into a field of concentration created to focus on the theory and history of their position in culture and society. The creation of the women’s studies concentration was, according to the Handbook for Students, an impetus to bring together the “new scholarship on women and gender that has come to occupy an increasingly important place in a number of disciplines over the past two decades...