Word: impressing
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...addition to Dante’s ten tackles, senior defensive lineman Marc Laborsky continued to impress, getting two sacks and four tackles behind the line of scrimmage...
...government tutorial grading standards should not be considered an inconvenience. All the students in the class will be graded against the same scale and will have equal opportunities to impress their teaching fellows. The central aim of an education should be to facilitate learning; awarding high grades for mediocre performance does not meet this goal. Mansfield is using his class as an example that other professors would do well to follow, rather than to ignore...
...looked at his cone in a new way. His signature dessert, coffee and doughnuts (cappuccino semifreddo, a flavored mousse, topped with steamed milk, accompanied by cinnamon-sugar doughnuts) was thought up one panicked late night at a doughnut shop when he was poor and struggling and desperate to impress the James Beard Foundation at a dinner the next night. It's effete food with testosterone subtext...
...expenditure in the pre-Tuesday world; it will not be anymore. And the formation of a government agency to deal specifically with the threat of terrorism - more intelligence, increased airport security, stiffer checks at U.S. borders - seems imminent, and it will have to have a budget big enough to impress...
...work hard. I can see that now. My true calling is to live unencumbered and follow the fleeting impulses of my heart and take a nap around 2 p.m. whether I want to or not. I worked hard for years out of plain fear and ignorance and also to impress women and have the funds to take them to restaurants that serve poached salmon with a light saffron sauce on a bed of roses and then bring them home to Tara and when they say, "Wow! What a big house you have!" to say, "Come in and let me show...