Word: informing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the Linguistics Department feel they must look for ways to inform students about their concentration, Michelson says, since "linguistics isn't something that people hear about in high school." To "make freshmen aware that there is a Linguistics department," faculty have worked to increase the number of their courses reviewed in the CUE Guide and to get a Linguistics course included in the Core Curriculum...
...implored him to leave his post gracefully. Iacocca said he would do so only if the conflict of interest allegation were clearly spelled out. Hodel finally picked up a letter and read aloud its operative paragraph: "I have determined that this matter is not subject to debate . . . I must inform you with regret that your chairmanship of, and membership on, the commission are terminated." He signed the letter and handed it to Iacocca...
...lower on the evolutionary chart than were the Nazis. They are in fact so subhuman that we aren't supposed to care when we see the Americans slaughter hundreds of Muslims later on in the film. But this doesn't explain why screenwriters James Bruner and Golan choose to inform us that one of the terrorists had a young daughter who was killed by the Israelis. Are they Nazis or victims or both? To be honest, I haven't lost too much sleep trying to figure out the answer...
Along the way Davies populates early 20th century Canada and England with characters that leap off the page and both fascinate with their oddity and inform with their basic humanity. There is the dwarf tailor in Cornish's small town, Blairlogie, who a group of town toughs humiliate one night. Despairing, he hangs himself. Cornish sketches him in the morgue and this dwarf eventually becomes the subject of one of Cornish's greatest paintings...
Spence does not adequately answer any of these concerns. Instead, the dean offers a fuller account of his October report on Safran's conference contract, concluding in muted tones that there were "problems" with his failure to inform the participants of the CIA funding, his failure to tell the University of the funding as required, and his failure to pay Harvard a negotiated fee for overhead costs...