Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to admit that I am entertained by whatinformation ethicists may term shallow oruninteresting. I prefer dorm dramas and thenever-ending scene of social analysis to capitalmarkets any day. There's a fine line betweengossip and genuine concern, between fun frivolityand complete vapidity. I'm hoping that I can stayon the right side of the line
Many first-years, on the other hand, prefer value and efficiency when deciding where to grab a late-night bite...
Undergraduate members of the Owl will hold a meeting tomorrow to discuss a possible permanent policy change. Most students in the Owl said they prefer to keep the club open to non-members...
Actresses with a wide range like Polley's thrive at Sundance because many movies there take risks with compelling, quirky characters. Where Hollywood favors vapid females whose greatest apotheosis is a kiss, indies prefer complex women who can also kick butt. "Independent films almost have a province when it comes to portraying strong women," says festival programming chief Geoffrey Gilmore. "They're not just the archetypal roles of the girlfriend, the wife or even the women who get together to cry. Actresses get to play the kind of fully fleshed-out characters who just aren't in most studio scripts...
...G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, ran for President in 1948 on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket. These days Thurmond would prefer that you forget that youthful indiscretion, since he was only 45 at the time...