Word: overviews
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...want to give back the wisdom of the students [who participated in the study],” Sommers said. “We want to give [incoming] students an overview of what to expect each year. We want to give to give them the idea that they will be reading and writing all the time...
...plan's real identity resides behind the prose and in the details too small for political prognosticators to sniff out before the document's release. For example, the overview, released last night, immediately conjures the proverbial elephant in the room. Take this: "Many families face energy bills two to three times higher than they were a year ago... some employers must lay off workers or curtail production to absorb the rising cost of energy. Drivers across America are paying higher and higher gasoline prices...
...historical overview of Jerusalem from ancient times to the present was exceptional [JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF JESUS, April 16]. I was struck by the fact that of the three great religious groups--the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims--only the Muslims welcomed followers of the other religions back to Jerusalem to coexist and to worship the one true God common to all three at their holy places. The followers of Muhammad were the only ones who respected in practice the other religions in the Holy Land. Today Pope John Paul II carries on this great Islamic tradition...
...Initially, the novel is engaging, with a brief overview of the compound, the characters and a visit from father to daughter. This candlelit visit will be the center of the story and the center of the daughter’s longing, and Jorge indicates its significance from the beginning. But, despite the significance of this visit, the references to it and various other critical events in the story become repetitive through the novel. The most noticeable redundancy in this portion of novel is the fact that the main character doesn’t have a name; she is just referred...
...China is more a civilization than a country, and to attain an overview requires rising to a great altitude. Hessler mostly stays low, but his micro-view of life in Fuling brings the people alive, in all their diversity, down to the mystified farmer still wondering about rice seedlings' dropping from an AAir China...