Word: rather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instructors. There's even strategizing on the art of asking. "Make sure you ask for a strong letter. You have to say strong," Elissa Hull, a counselor in Achieva's Cupertino center, insists to senior Will Chen. If the teacher demurs, she says, Chen should yank back the request rather than end up with lukewarm praise. Achieva keeps its student records in files that look like doctor's folders, with vitals--classes, test scores, deadlines and other information--regularly checked. Then there are the essays, which counselors help students conceptualize and write. And all this doesn't end when...
...gone further left on gays, proposing that they should have all the legal and economic rights of marriage short of the title itself, and he's gone further on gun control, where he favors registering all handguns. But on most issues, he is mainly promising to spend more rather than spend differently. On health care, no one is proposing a government takeover of the system; Bradley's plan is more expensive, but it centers on giving people the money to buy private insurance. Likewise, his proposals to raise the minimum wage as well as funding for day-care and after...
...years ago, a very big animal had a very bad day. Deep in Siberia, an 11-ft.-tall woolly mammoth fell over dead. It became entombed in the permafrost, where it remained until last week, when it was finally freed. If scientists have their way, the same mammoth--or rather, its cloned kin--could walk again...
...which in addition to its TV empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly a billion dollars in ads and promotional opportunities for sizable equity stakes in start-ups like MarketWatch.com SportsLine.com and Jobs.com...
...Rather than make such bald judgments herself, Thurman sets forth her subject's contradictions in a historically sensitive, prodigiously researched biography that has more than a soupcon of modern psychological theory thrown in. Understandably, Thurman occasionally gets lost in the thicket of claims, counterclaims and feuds that envelops the novelist. But who would not? The sphinxlike Colette, inscrutable mistress of her domain, would not have had it any other...