Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice, you may be thinking. A Mexican-American filmmaker -- not enough of those. And thrifty too. Rodriguez, the third of 10 children of a nurse and a sales manager for a cookware firm, does seem an exemplary gent. To impress on his younger siblings the value of an education, he has resolved to take the last three courses he needs for his University of Texas degree. But goodwill doesn't make a good film. And one of El Mariachi's zestful pleasures is that you can enjoy it without awarding it affirmative-action points. It's a real movie, high...
Institutionally, Harvard does not understand or support people like us. Besides, they only wants to impress parents who might make donations. Remember, I told you it's cold up here...
SIDWELL FRIENDS, A PRESTIGIOUS WASHINGTON Quaker school, teaches young people the importance of simplicity. But when Chelsea Clinton begins classes there later this month, her life will be anything but simple. There'll be new friends to make, new teachers to impress, all under the watchful eye of ubiquitous attendants in bad suits and dark glasses. If that isn't enough, Chelsea will start out knowing that, fairly or not, her very presence there opens her father to the charge of being a hypocrite...
...their feathered predators, devoured the crops, enveloped the trees and rained down upon pedestrians. In that same grand tradition of meddling with nature, Alaska has declared an air war against hundreds of wolves in an effort to boost already abundant populations of caribou and moose. And all to impress hunters and tourists. Never mind that when herds swell, starvation is often close by. Even as Alaska prepares to wage its wolf war, conservationists in the Lower 48 mourn the absence of wolves and seek to reintroduce them...
...Education requires] commitment not just from government but from parents and from teachers," Shabazz said. "We have to [impress on] young people that they have the responsibility to learn...