Word: impressively
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar was not harping on the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction; he was urging the president to give the electorate a more realistic picture of the scale and duration of the U.S. occupation mission in Iraq, and to impress on them the importance of staying the course. Fresh from a visit to Baghdad, Lugar warned: "The idea that we will be in just as long as we need to and not a day more - we've got to get over that rhetoric. It is rubbish! We're going...
Oracle dipped its toes in the CRM market, but the results failed to impress. "They built it, and no one came," says Erin Kinikin, vice president of Forrester Research. Oracle's e-business suite, known as 11i, was plagued by early reports of bugs that turned installations into nightmares. Meanwhile, Microsoft was making inroads into the database business with its fast-growing SQL Server software. And SAP just kept getting larger. Its share of the market for enterprise applications has grown from 51% to 54% in the past year alone. By contrast, Oracle has a 15% share and PeopleSoft...
...seemed a favorite of University President Lawrence H. Summers, who she knew from her time in Washington and who she had managed to impress with her work on Allston as well...
Dear God, get over yourself. If someone is genuinely interested then say it—it’s another fact of life. But if you’re using it to impress someone, it won?...
Relax—life is long. You don’t have to get it all done by 25, know it all by 30 and impress everyone by your five-year reunion. You have enough time to make a lot of different choices and do cool things—or not. Be completely ordinary if you want to, give yourself permission. Harvard adds a little more pressure I think—you don’t want your greatest accomplishment to be getting into a great school. But the sooner you give yourself permission the better...