Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only half the franchises are turning a profit, claim the owners. Not so, say the players: just four teams are in the red. In any case, they complain, owners have a funny way of counting so-called basketball-related revenues. These omit, among other things, about 60% of income from luxury boxes and concessions...
...value of the ivy closet. Many of us are conservative politically. Many of us believe that getting ahead is most important. A Harvard student may choose not to write a term paper with a queer theme to accommodate a professor's homophobia. A Harvard student may choose tactfully omit a pronoun to avoid revealing the gender of a lover. A Harvard queer knows when and how to pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again because we want...
...dearth) and http://'s. To reach a friend a few blocks away, I have to type 38 letters that mean nothing, a numeral, two underlines, an ampersand, a hyphen and two periods, all in a uniform, dotty sequence that will go nowhere if I add a single space or omit a stroke...
Finally, it would be a disservice to the play to omit mention of the various other experimental devices or odd techniques. These range from the set pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort...
...council's resolution, which passed last month by a vote of 30 to 20, also requests that the College omit any mention of the ceremony in official Commencement week programs...