Word: pretended
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...matter how insignificant you are in the [publishing] organization, people will ask you how they can get their book published,” he said. “[I found out that] you had to very quickly pretend you know what you’re talking about... to have this type of authority to give this person an answer to get him off your back...
...matter how insignificant you are in the [publishing] organization, people will ask you how they can get their book published,” he said. “[I found out that] you had to very quickly pretend you know what you’re talking about... to have this type of authority to give this person an answer to get him off your back...
...seeing a convergence. The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There...
...seeing a convergence. The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There...
...Hasty Pudding punches initiates, or “neophytes” as the club likes to refer to them. FlyBy wasn't lucky enough to be one of them, but those who made the cut received an email shortly before midnight on Tuesday that asked them to pretend to be John Harvard bodyguards from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. today, in one-hour shifts...