Word: okaying
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...Until you start to read cases, you tend to think of admissions as something fairly mechanical,” he says. “And that is, okay, you’re going to take so many people who are like this, or you’re going to take so many from this kind of school, or from this part of the country, or with this kind of an academic interest... [but] real people are not like that...
...Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the Marine who was the unit leader on the ground that day in Haditha, was put on the Marine Corps list for promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant in October 2005. Being put on the list, however, does not ensure promotion; the Marine's commander must okay it first, and the Marine Corps routinely holds up nominations or promotions if there is any reason to question the actions of a Marine. Even a charge of "driving while intoxicated," for example, can delay or derail a step...
...tendency to improv in public speaking, which can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences,” says Burkle, leaning back in a chair in Quincy courtyard. “I feel like as long as I don’t make a racial slur, I’m okay.” The Winthrop House resident and French concentrator has been acting in and directing shows since his freshman spring—this year Burkle directed Eugene Ionesco’s existential face “Rhinoceros” and his own translation of French playwright Jules Romain?...
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...what their purposes are. It's like being called a "funny Jew" by Mel Brooks, or being called a "funny Jew" by Hitler. They're going to have very different goals in the label. So if a Latina magazine says that I'm a Latina writer, that's okay with me because I think they understand that that's a very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York that said something like, Valdes-Rodriguez is bringing...