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That women tend to opt for the soft touch is also evident in the way they use "I'm sorry" and "Thank you." Women, more often than men, will use these phrases blindly in instances where there is no need for expressions of apology or gratitude. Tannen offers the example of Charlene, who is visited by a colleague at an inopportune time. After explaining that she is quite busy, she adds, "Boy, I'm really sorry about this rush-rush...
Some things about the lunches won't change, though. Students can still opt for more traditional lunchtime alternatives, like ham or roast beef sandwiches...
Those plans, however, prompted a stir at a Faculty Council meeting in April. Some professors are questioning whether the arc is really an effort to cut costs, and others have wondered aloud whether departments slated for the new area can opt, not to move...
Phoebe Brook, chair of the Harvard Square Advisory Committee, thinks the golden arches would create traffic problems. Yet it's common knowledge that drivers of all creeds avoid the Square like savory baked tofu. Hungry drivers would easily opt for Porter Square burgers...
...that of whites. Enforced on the easily-distinguished basis of skin color, this fundamental difference threatens to remain indefinitely, unlike the discrimination that faced European immigrants earlier this century. In general whites, regardless of where they come from and what their history has been, because they are white,can opt out of their ethnicities. People of color cannot, being constantly reminded by the larger society who they "really" are. Consequently, the experience of currently-marginalized groups stands distinct from that of European immigrants who were once similarly marginalized...