Word: pretended
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While the University could either opt for a good team or stringent academic standards, with the AI it is left with neither. What it is able to do is have something that it can show to both sides and pretend to give them each what they want...
...Pretend that you are an animal and it is feeding time at the zoo. You are starved and start licking your chops at the fresh meat sitting right in front of you. Now imagine that this reward has been snatched away from you and given to most hated rival; let's say, the bears...
...including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So those who insist that the 1964 act--and civil rights principles generally--ought to be interpreted as race-neutral are left with a dilemma. Either they must modify their principles and accept that the world is a bit more complicated than they pretend, or they must haul Oseola McCarty into court for breaking the civil rights laws. I dare them...
After two more accidental meetings, he agrees to pretend to be her husband just for a night, to grant her respectability in the family's eyes, then to disappear. That, you know, is not going to be easy. She is beautiful (and meltingly portrayed by Sanchez-Gijon), her relatives are entertainingly fractious, and he, we discover, is an orphan with a lifelong need for the kind of noisy warmth they generate...
...people communicated. Rather, one liners, stories and yelling made up the verbal interaction, and high-fives and back-patting on a scale I had not seen since Little League were added at appropriate times. While there is nothing wrong with any of these things--I do not pretend to be anti-high-five-ing--it was so linked with the way the operation ran that I did not see how you could fit in acting differently. But while that clearly made for a situation where a women might feel uncomfortable, it was the dialogue that took place that was appalling...