Word: plum
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...wrongful, I would say) discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students onlystrongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot at a plum summer...
...discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students only—strongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot at a plum summer...
...songs range from 30-second musical epiphanies to 10-minute meditations and are usually about the infinite majesty of natural forces like mountains, wolves, and plum blossoms or about his personal musical Vision Quests to find strength and tenderness...
...beginning of the Reagan Administration, Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence...
...Mahdi of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), agreed to take himself out of the running. In exchange for backing the Dawa man, SCIRI will likely get a candidate of its own choosing into one of two vice presidencies, and also land a couple of plum cabinet jobs. Jaafari still faces a challenge for the Shiite nomination from former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi, which may be settled by secret ballot among Alliance delegates over the next two days. But Jaafari consistently shows up in Iraqi opinion polls as one of the country's most popular politicians...