Word: preps
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...solar installer, a job that can pay up to $16 an hour. But starting in August, a compressed weekday program - catering to the recently unemployed - will allow students to cram the same courses into just two months. To earn an associate degree focusing on renewable energy - enough prep for a job as a solar-installation-team leader, which can pay up to $28 an hour - an ACC student has to take a total of 69 credit hours of courses, including solar photovoltaic systems, programming, physics, algebra, English composition and lab work. Average cost per credit hour for most students...
...pledged that she quite clearly understood that foreign laws are not applicable in the United States, even if she has an interest in studying them. Following a strategy first developed by now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts when, as an aide in the Justice Department, he helped prep Sandra Day O'Connor for her confirmation hearing in 1981, Sotomayor's answers followed a now standard, safe script. Praise Brown v. Board of Ed? Check. Cite Roe v. Wade as "settled law"? Check. Condemn Kormatsu v. the United States? Check...
...weak, you'll break down like a poorly emulsified vinaigrette, but if you can hack it, then wherever you're from, whatever language you speak, you know where and who you are and what you're doing: you're a saucier, or a sous, or a prep monkey, or a plongeur, or a chef...
...live, knowing you're not going to get another crack at it for a couple of months? I've thought about it nonstop for the last two months. I've been there and booked pretty much every guest we've gotten. I've made sure to do all the prep work that I can on the guests we're having...
...Many students, as we well know, make it out of these extraordinary environments—some earlier, thanks to scholarships, to prep schools, or elite summer programs and participation in organizations such as Upward Bound and MESA, and some later, through admission to top colleges, including Harvard. We applaud Harvard for offering unprecedented financial support to low-income students, helping many first-generation college students, including those from at-risk communities. However, as evidenced by significant research and a recent article in the Boston Globe, the inclination to believe that providing access and financial assistance is enough is both wrong...