Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have been reassuring to know that the administration had investigated these problems in order to protect undergraduates as fully as possible. Instead, the administration has been swept along by Brustein's bold plan. As usual, the administration has been all too eager to pay obeisance to the "big name." As a result, a very important educational decision, affecting literally hundreds of undergraduates will be made with only one option having been presented...
Caius Marcius (Alan Howard) has won the added name of Coriolanus by defeating the Volscians at Corioli. He is a Roman of boundless valor and steely pride. The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor. Furious at his open contempt, the plebs rescind their approval and have him banished from the city...
Sodium cried, "What a gas, be my bride And I'll change your name from chlorine to chloride...
...great thing, and should run with it," is the way Kaplan explains his incredible business growth. "People kept telling me that there was a gold mine out there, but I resisted expanding because I was afraid that I couldn't maintain the quality associated with my name." Finally, high school guidance counselors across the country started calling Kaplan to complain that he was not being fair to students outside New York...
...stand or fall on their wit alone. That they could stand at all is a tribute to the universality of his satire. No one remembers W.H. Smith any more (the newspaper-stand magnate Gilbert caricatures as Sir Joseph Porter)--except the tourists to Great Britain who still see his name on every other newsstand. But no one can miss this general broadside against sinecures of any kind...