Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spare classroom of Richard Clark, an Anglo English teacher. Clark, an austere-looking man with a crew cut and a deeply lined face, has been teaching at the academy for nine years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses identifies a predicate phrase modifying a compound verb. When she's finished, Clark scans the room and says with a wry smile, "Paulette, you're the next volunteer." Paulette, a tiny girl with a large pompadour, dutifully marches to the blackboard and, in a spidery hand, diagrams a sentence with a nonrestrictive relative clause...
Does that seem to contradict the republics' right to "free choice of forms of . . . economic management"? Well, these central union powers are to be exercised "together with the republics" -- a phrase that occurs over and over in the draft, and seems less a clarification than an invitation to conflict...
...concepts from other people's work without proper attribution, although King usually cited the original source at least once. The prime example: King's doctoral dissertation in theology, which drew material from a dissertation written three years earlier by another student. By a "strict definition," in Carson's cautious phrase, this was plagiarism...
While the musuem should be lauded for deciding to return these artifacts, the phrase "held in trust"--which appeared in the September 21 issue of the Harvard Gazette--reflects the persistent and troubling assumption that museums and collectors have certain inalienable rights to the works of art they hold. This assumption is particularly pervasive in the cases of art from non-Western cultures acquired during turbulent eras...
...possibility that Saddam will get smart, leave Kuwait and go about increasing his powers of intimidation by completing his nuclear weapons program. If he doesn't see a need to withdraw to the status quo ante -- and there is no sign yet that he "gets it," to borrow the phrase in vogue in the White House -- it appears that much of the world is headed toward war against the man George Bush once again last week called "Hitler revisited...