Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, people simply prefer different times to take exams. My earliest class all semester was at 11. Taking a 9:15 test is a feat and a half. And for masochistic science concentrators the 9:00 option is still there...
Other students say they prefer a more laid-back approach to exams...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...nurturer. Men have flashes of ego and confidence followed by relapses. They have to be stroked, and I don't have that patience." There is also the age problem. Recently she dated men around her age, 44, but found them over the hill sexually. She would prefer younger men, but her pride restrains her. "Like there's something faintly ridiculous about Cher with that young guy: she looks like a dowager with a gigolo." Some dowager...
...infusion of Arab dollars into the U.S. and the political influence that goes with it," says a B.C.C.I. investigator. Just what Zayed might demand for pouring more billions into what's left of B.C.C.I. remains unspoken, but Abu Dhabi has made it clear in the past that it would prefer some sort of restructuring to outright liquidation...