Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change verbs to nouns, and thus eliminate the true subject of the sentence. Some common verb-to-noun endings that should be avoided are: ing, -tion, -al. For example, use "we removed" instead of "the removal...
...sharply increased in the past ten years. They now constitute from 25% to 30% of the 3 billion Christmas cards that will be sold this year by Hallmark, which claims the largest share of the Christmas market. While religion is in, Santa seems to be ho-ho-ho-ing himself out of popular favor. He has been getting silly and vulgar lately, so good riddance...
...standards, and successes are usually recounted amid apologies. At the mention of the year Northwestern won the Rose Bowl (1949), it is usually added that the Wildcats were merely Big Ten co-champions in 1948 and made the trip to Pasadena because a conference rule prevented Michigan from go ing two years...
Prospects for negotiated solutions are poor. President Carter started conventional arms transfer talks with the Soviets in 1977. They were abandoned the follow ing year after the Soviets demanded, and the U.S. refused, to discuss weapons sales to the Persian Gulf region. The Reagan Administration has expressed a willingness to talk with the Soviets about new strategic arms limits and theater nuclear force reduction of missiles in Europe. But there is currently little expressed desire for conventional arms-sale restraint?either by the Reagan Administration, the Soviets, the other major producers or even Third World nations. The first step toward...
...pair settle down to chomp through civilization and its discontents along with their quail. Gregory does most of the talk ing, and such disagreements as they have are politely put. Shawn seeks a certain comfort in routine; Gregory obviously seeks the intensification of experience that can result from a daily questioning of one's routines. Neither wants to pick a fight or, for that matter, make a convert. At most, it would seem, André wants to make certain that his odyssey was not in vain, that he learned something for his trouble. And, it must be said, there...