Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone up at second- and third-tier schools, so that they are indeed...
...feel sorrier still, though, for anyone who has to sit through a show that includes not only moments like these but two renditions of the vastly overexposed Pachelbel Canon. Sex in art is usually erotic, titillating, or at least funny, but in Cloud 9, it is none of the above...
...author condemns Harvard's "interference" in the employee's consideration of the union proposition. Does this author really believe that it is more "moral" to sit back and not fight for an opinion, be that opinion personal or organizational, when the outcome of the battle will definitely affect the lives of 3500 people, eight hours a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year? The administration's so-called interference is a moral and responsible effort to present the other side of a controversial and significant issue...
...sit and wait," Seddon said. "Harvard's a good team. We're a good team. Maybe we'll see them in the playoff. Maybe they...
...Peacefully, but first of all we have to start the negotiations on this period of the Camp David accords. Why, why is it so difficult to sit together like we are sitting here now? What's the difficulty? I will kill them or what...