Word: plucking
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...given how easy it is to pluck a term paper off the Web, it's hard to argue against using Turnitin to curb academic dishonesty. That's why some schools, including McLean, rely on both honor codes and plagiarism-detection software to keep students on the up-and-up--without seeing these methods as being at odds with each other. The Air Force Academy, which expelled 15 first-year cadets this month for cheating, takes great pride in its honor code but also checks for plagiarism. Says Joey Smith, 22, chairman of the cadets' honor committee: "It's the whole...
...This whole distinction between Western eyes and Eastern. It's very good on Russia. He's very insistent that you have to make the imaginative effort to see it - you have to pluck out your Western eyes when you think about Russia. Russia never really decided whether it was a European or an Asian country, and there's that mix in the national character that is both European and Asiatic...
...Molly was swept up by the New York Times to add some writing panache to the Grey Lady, but she brought more spice than the Times could handle. "Molly doesn't sand down," friend Adam Clymer said. Her legendary description of a community chicken killing event as a "gang pluck" was one wince too far for the Times, and she was back in Texas...
...quite yet in Vista. You don't always instinctively know where the back button will be, or the "close this window" button. If your desktop is overcrowded with windows, you can hit an icon that will line them all up for you, tilted at an angle, so you can pluck out the one that you need. Nice - but at the same time, it breaks with the visual metaphor of a flat desktop...
...power behind the throne,? she told the New York Times in 1986. ?She helped her husband out. Mother always knew best, too.? Spoken like a real-life good wife, good mother and do-gooder. But Jane was also a career woman, embodying an ideal of feminine grace and pluck that may seem antique today but was a beacon for her age. She was a great lady, a terrific person. And I?d say that even if I thought that, if I did, Jane would reach out from the beyond and punch...