Word: inputs
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Hopefully, the same thing that my campaign has told the American people about me. That I think through big decisions, I get a lot of input from a lot of people and that, ultimately, I try to surround myself with people who are about getting the job done and who are not about ego, self-aggrandizement, getting their names in the press, but are focused on what's best for the American people...
...table, but he and his seven fellow editors are a tough crowd. They keep an eye on print publications to see whether a variant usage has started to become mainstream. Any word that seems to be a good candidate for an update undergoes rigorous scrutiny as the editors seek input from a panel of some 200 orthographic and lexicographic whizzes. Even among this writerly crowd, 13% admitted in 1996 to combining a lot into a single word. But 93% still considered it an error and corrected it in their own writing - leading the editors not to change the entry. Variants...
Crucial in fleshing out Warwick's goals was input from its Council, the university's executive body, drawn largely from professions outside academia. Lay members, many working in business and industry, "add an enormous amount to the institution," says Thrift. Indeed, many U.S. and U.K. universities pack their governing bodies with external members; the LSE, for instance, "is, technically speaking, a company," says Howard Davies, its director. "The university has always had something like a corporate board...
...says. "He looked like something Dr. Seuss would have designed." Bonaparte was her "road dog," traveling with her on tour and when he died she went into deep grief. In his honor, she built Bonaparte's Retreat, a rescue and foster operation in her backyard, designed with input from Friedman, and she embarked on a campaign to support pet adoption...
...port and passage. The map was printed in 2006, so the printed prices are now out of date. But Kidane has bigger problems. As food and fuel prices rise, suppliers have begun defaulting on their contracts; they are either unable to provide goods at a previously agreed price because input costs have increased, or unwilling to sell food at the old rate now that others will pay more. "We used to have sufficient stock - four months, five months - in the pipeline," Kidane says. By May there were three, and the situation is only worsening...