Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks before classes end and reading period begins. This will serve two purposes: first, it will lessen the burden on students during reading period because they will only have to revise a draft rather than create one from scratch. In addition, spreading out the work of a paper will lighten the load all around. Second, and more important from a teaching standpoint, it will improve students' writing. It is amazing how much better a paper can be when the final draft is not the same as the first draft, or when it is not written the night before...
...only enemy action that closed down the runways. Says General Smith: "At first light [on the 29th] the Vietnamese air force took off," dumping loads--sometimes including bombs and sometimes on runways--to lighten their planes. Then ground crews moved bulldozers and other heavy equipment onto the runways--out of "pique," says the general, who speculates that the soldiers left behind didn't want those who abandoned them ever to come back. Amazingly, even then Ambassador Martin would not order a helicopter evacuation. He insisted on fixed-wing flights because they could move more people and refused to admit they...
...larger course offerings in each topic would also improve other areas of the Core. It would decrease the number of students in each class and lighten the teaching load for professors and graduate students. The lighter load would mean a better education in the class for students...
Butt Trumpet takes some getting used to. The parental advisory sticker on the cover has the words "lighten up" pasted underneath it. The spot where the CD rests in the case has a revealing photo of somebody's bare ass. Butt Trumpet's self-counsciousness is apparent in all aspects of the album...
...feared that he's seen as stiff and sardonic, still perceived as a hatchet man by those who recall his slash-and-burn campaign tactics as Gerald Ford's 1976 vice-presidential running mate, well, then maybe he was right to use network TV's hippest show to lighten his image...