Word: propell
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...potential to serve as a responsible voice for the student community in the affairs of the College. It might play a role in the current review of the tenure system, guaranteeing that student concerns to improve the quality of teaching have proper representation. The council might help propel a review of the Core Curriculum, which many students charge does not meet its stated purpose of teaching the methodologies of the disciplines. But such an expansion would require a fundamental reevaluation of the council, a recharter that would render it an organ of the faculty and administrative community rather than simply...
...Wall Street, however, today's victories always make way for tomorrow's doubts. Will passing 2000 propel the Dow to still greater heights? Or will the rise run out of momentum now that the magic goal has been reached? (Students of stock-market history recall all too well that after the Dow passed 1000, it stalled for a decade before it cracked 1100.) And perhaps most important of all, why is the market so high when the economy continues to be so lackluster...
...Werewolf displays a classic Landis weakness. Almost every one of the film's creative elements, from characters to special effects, shows a degree of thought and attention to detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed car crashes--exists to propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial...
DEMOCRATS MAY be counting on the roar of a Mario Cuomo victory in the New York Gubenatorial election this November to help propel their party's man into the White House, but his impending victory in New York may just be so much noise from a paper tiger. Cuomo's imminent defeat of Republican Andrew O'Rourke may seem to some like a prelude to a national liberal resurgence, but it is really the product of a packaging campaign, largely devoid of a political ideology...
This time, the Crimson whipped B.C. and romped past Dartmouth twice, to propel itself into the final four...