Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to be abusing the phrase "onramp to the Information Highway" in advertising OS/2. Students with Ethernet access will be disappointed with the most recent version of OS/2 Warp; it only includes support for connecting to networks over the modem, and there is no support for Ethernet connections...
...J.F.O. McAllister, who is travelling with Christopher, says the hitch -- concerning the security arrangements for a possible Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights -- arose from cold feet and domestic qualms about peace in both countries. "When you get involved in these issues of such vital national security, every phrase gets dissected," McAllister says...
Jesus' Blood made its impact by repeating, for nearly an hour, a phrase of a hymn tune sung by an old man on a London street and recorded by a TV crew filming a documentary on derelicts. Bryars devised a kaleidoscopic accompaniment for the man's a cappella tape loop, slowly shifting and swelling the instrumentation and finally bringing on Tom Waits near the end to sing a raw, urgent posthumous duet...
...director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "In most parts of this country, institutions like public schools are getting along fine with religious people. In Texas alone there are 500 Bible clubs meeting before and after school. If we saw children being arrested for praying-a phrase they always use-or denied the right to carry a Bible on the school bus, we'd see it in newspapers coast to coast. In actuality we see it only in fund-raising letters." And as long as the funds keep coming in, we will see these Christian soldiers...
...this is in fact the true definition of the phrase, why then do so many of these classes--and most importantly the sections of these classes--have a larger number of graduate students than the word primarily indicates they would? It is true that the presence of graduate students in sections can sometimes be beneficial. But it is also true that the presence of these students is detrimental not only to undergraduate students but also to the structure and the dynamics of the section as a whole...