Word: preferments
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...process, but it has also brought selfish nationalistic tendencies to the surface. Events in the Baltics, the Caucasus and elsewhere have caused concern abroad as well as within our country. A solution to this truly historic problem can be found, and we are coming closer to it. We still prefer the term union to confederation, although it is certainly true that certain confederative elements might be used...
...hand, simply an exercise in candor, an acknowledgment of what other experts have been saying for more than a year. But Bush and his wily Budget Director, Richard Darman, have a second agenda. Now that they have convened a budget summit with congressional Democrats, the White House would prefer to remove the rising bill for thrift closures from the deficit talks to make it easier for both sides to reach the elusive Gramm- Rudman targets. A speedy budget deal, Darman believes, will lower interest rates and keep the economy growing. But other participants, notably Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer...
...contrast extends to the hours they prefer, even their table manners. Bush bounds eagerly out of bed at 5:30 a.m., and always has. Sununu is a night owl who, when studying engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would organize a marathon bridge game or keep fraternity brothers awake while thwokking a lacrosse ball off his wall, then handle his homework in an hour or so before class. Bush is so exquisitely considerate that at meals, without breaking conversation, he will shift his water glass to give the waiter more room as he arrives with the soup. When Sununu...
Aging and nostalgic visitors who find the cafe scene not what it used to be also find good reasons for that. One is that Paris cafes flourished because residential hotel rooms were often dark and cold; prosperity has changed that. Another is that, with prices high, many people prefer the neighborhood cafe to the famous institutions. Still, the 40th anniversary can be celebrated only at the Cafe de la Mairie, and though it has become a bit fancy -- the old goldfish tank has disappeared, along with the chessboard -- it is still a neighborhood cafe. It bears its literary traditions lightly...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, 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...