Word: mire
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...cast away your inflated transcript and move on to others means of evaluation. If grade inflation really made of mockery of Harvard diplomas, the employers would not come at all. No matter how one feels about grade inflation, care should be taken to reasonably frame the debate, and not mire an important discussion about our respectable pillar of higher education with rhetorical over-enthusiasm...
...with the remarkably similar structure and visuals of Madonna's American Pie video. But Barak's reaction was stronger. His campaign unleashed a series of spots that drilled home Sharon's role in Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion. Barak's admen accused Sharon of digging Israeli soldiers into the mire of Lebanon, from which they didn't emerge until Barak pulled them out last summer after a costly occupation...
...worked tirelessly for the student interest in his five terms on the council, is the right man for the job. Gusmorino is by far the most qualified and talented candidate in a strong field, and we believe that he will lift the council out of the aimless and ineffectual mire it has slipped into over the past year...
...alluring investment opportunity for U.S. business, even if the pace of reforming its archaic communist economy has been slow. Vietnam's communist leaders want U.S. investment more than ever, now that the early promise of turning the country into a new "Asian Tiger" economy has faded somewhat in a mire of bureaucratic red tape. Foreign investment, which amounted to more than $8 billion a year, or one third of the country's GNP, in the mid-'90s, has slowed recently, and a trade agreement signed with the U.S. in July is a sign of Hanoi's need to expand...
...feel good to pretend that we live in an imaginary world where Radcliffe as an undergraduate institution still exists, but it accomplishes nothing to mire the Council in a symbolic anachronism," Lev Polinsky '99-'00, who sponsored the legislation, wrote in an e-mail message...