Word: prop
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...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative acton in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209," is factually incorrect. The Regents voted to end affirmative action in 1995, two years before the passage of Prop. 209 and began to phase out affirmative action in the graduate schools the following year...
...market Cook aggressively at one point. However, once the camera alighted on Prime, seen previously in both installments of that I Know...Summer series, they simply had to surrender the film to him. He is a magnet in front of the camera. In comparison, Laney Boggs is a mere prop to his masculine narrative. In both screen time and plot weight, Prinze's character receives much more emphasis than any other. The scrawny effort to inflate his persona, with the injection of an overbearing father and the angst of being too overachieving, is pitiful--but Prinze carries it off with...
...California wants to improve diversity in higher education it should fix its system of public secondary education. In the meantime, the Board of Regents should continue to heed the wise voice of the people as expressed through Prop. 209, and continue to maintain an admissions policy based solely on merit. Jenny E. Heller '01 Noah D. Oppenheim...
...February 26, American Eagle Flight 3226 spirited me away from Harvard. Wing-mounted prop engines labored hard and the SAAB 340B cabin vibrated hypnotically. I dosed off thinking-next stop, Santa Barbara, California. Soon, the hydraulic whirring of the landing gear woke me up and down we sailed, moving closer to the breaking waves and snaking coastline...
Members don't want to cede air time to witnesses, so they toss hand grenades disguised as questions. Representative Bill McCollum kept positing inaccurate details about one witness' life, using her as a prop to make his point, until she finally asked to be allowed to answer. But who has time for answers when members are determined to be home and rested for Christmas...