Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, the essays lose the playfulness and verge on self-importance, not self-consciousness. In all the essays, Updike makes offhand remarks that show a strong sense of his own significance, and the essays pick up this tone...
...picking a successor to O'Neill, Harvard needs to think about how it can provide the most support to the community. It is crucial to have an administrator who, like O'Neill, is outside the real estate business, who has close ties to the city and who is willing to listen. If the University fails to pick such a successor, choosing to think of itself as an entity separate and distinct from Cambridge, Harvard may do the city irreparable harm. And by hurting the surrounding community, the University will hurt itself...
...remaining 66 percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University's expenses have increased more than 180 percent, $558 million, since 1978. The inevitable, however unfortunate, result is that students must bear more of the burden...
...commandant of cadets at West Point. While he was walking across the campus one day, a white cadet failed to give the requisite salute. Gorden paused. Still no salute. He could have severely disciplined the cadet, but he chose simply to talk with him instead. "I've learned to pick and choose my battles," he explains...
...decent meal, some travelers insist, is the brown bag. Manhattan's William Poll, sandwich purveyor to the Upper East Side top crust, prepares at least 50 boxes a week for his customers. On any given Monday morning, an arbitrager on his way to the coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small price...