Word: outlet
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Public endorsements of Expos are rare. Long the outlet of first-year disgust, the writing program and its director are now under the general scrutiny of the Harvard community. With my own experience fresh in memory, I would like to redirect some of this criticism. The problem runs deeper than Marius. Harvard's undergraduate administration is itself at fault for failing to effectively incorporate the writing program in the College curriculum. Expository Writing needs a mandate for change to come from the College itself...
They're not all cowhands and they don't all live on the Rio Grande. But many of Harvard's Texan students share one trait: they're very fond of their state. And now, they have an outlet for their pride...
...months before his assassination, John Kennedy said, "The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world." The realities of the present unpredictable and unsentimental world demand no less. Failing it, the telephone will be ringing more often after midnight: Chaos calling; Will you accept the charges...
...plot, although original in its premise of the underground radio show as an outlet for teenage angst, is not supported by the rest of the movie. The writing, by the movie's director, Allan Moyle, is cliched at best. As the movie unfolds, the teenage heroes fight the system; Nora and Mark hit it off and take on the school administration. What was thought to be a pastoral place of learning and enrichment in the hills (which are actually outside of Los Angeles, as proven by the shot of the LA Aqueduct) turns out to be full of troubled kids...
Some students in the class thought that the explosion was caused by the heat building up within a closed system. One student said the elbow joints connecting the flask to the collecting rod did not provide an outlet to release excess...