Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer myself as the most sophisticated social critic. It's a question of the degree to which you want to alienate your audience." Plainly, alienation does not stand much of a chance with Turow. "I hoped that the wives of corporate lawyers would be able to read this book," he says. One L has already proven ten times more successful than Turow originally expected it would be, he says...
...student. Fresh carrots dangling from the ends of the sticks, but the same old donkeys after them. "People have said to me the competition for jobs makes the competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms and say bad things about people they know...
...movies can fill only part of each day. I may rise at noon or later; still I have many hours to fill' and my hometown doesn't offer much scintillating entertainment. The tree-lined streets are very placid and social life in the town is about the same. My town sports Playland, an amusement park famous county-wide, but in spring all anyone can do is stare at the deserted rides. There are two bars in town, but I have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt...
...long era of irrationality in Mississippi gubernatorial races was not yet at an end. In that race he defeated William Winter in the Democratic primary and Gil Carmichael in the general election. Both opponents are among the most intelligent, articulate and truly progressive leaders the state had to offer...
Evidence suggests that competence in mathematics and expository writing can quickly erode if their cultivation is left entirely to the freshman year. To avoid this problem, it will be necessary to offer ways of reinforcing these skills at later points in the undergraduate experience. Thus, we will need to encourage instructors to do more to point out errors of grammar, organization, and syntax in evaluating student papers, and we must find ways of providing added help to students with special writing problems. We should likewise make sure that other core courses embody levels of mathematical reasoning that will require students...