Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, I have always stayed away from discussing the Council in my columns. I prefer to observe their stupidity and worthlessness from a distance, laughing silently to myself. But this has somehow changed with this year's elections. I honestly believe, my doubtful readers, that there is a candidate out there who can be less annoying than Rudd Coffey. I am not being sarcastic. In fact, I honestly believe that he is a great candidate: dedicated, strong-willed and with the power and the desire to really change the degenerating reputation of the Council with some innovative ideas and proposals...
Lamont is very useful to the student who is writing a paper and needs material. It is also convenient for those who prefer to read in quiet places. There are apparently very few diversions besides etching a trite Confucian saying or perverse message into the wooden tables...
Lewis is correct to say that "first-year" can make for some awkward linguistics. If there were a "grammatically convenient and linguistically graceful alternative [to 'freshman'] that could be used everywhere," he wrote, he would prefer using it. It is true that "first-year" can make for some awkward constructions, but when has less-than-graceful wording ever stopped Harvard before? And schools that have already adopted "first-year," such as Columbia, Williams, Brandeis, Bowdoin, Trinity, Bates and Colby seem to have no problem with...
...Emmies are a bit more informal, so I think I prefer this," Falk said of yesterday's proceedings. "I'm secretly very stuffy...
...disease, its treatment and its consequences. Unlike women, who usually talk freely among themselves about intimate health problems, most men shy away from exchanging information about any of their physical disorders, let alone problems involving a gland that produces seminal fluid and affects urinary flow. And they prefer not to undergo, or even think about, the traditional test for detecting prostate problems: the infamous digital rectal exam...