Word: slough
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...some tips to help you focus and get your stuff done. First, acknowledge that there are some things in life you just have to do, like pay bills, register for classes, and get through your Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Once you learn what you absolutely must push through, you can slough off the things that don’t matter...
More rankings and better rankings are both needed if we are to breach the stasis of the U.S. News list. Indeed, a slough of rankings is the only appropriate response to the horrors of quantifying something as rich as a university. One ultimately hopes that the diversity of rankings will reflect the diversity of colleges...
...original British version, which ran for only 12 episodes and a feature-length special, was a faux-reality series following the daily life of a prim paper mill in Slough, England. Viewers expecting a by-the-numbers experience were pleasantly surprised—shocked, even—to find themselves laughing hysterically at the jaw-dropping antics of David Brent (played by co-creator Ricky Gervais), the regional manager who spends his time obliviously horrifying everyone around...
...FROM SLOUGH TO SCRANTON
...seemed almost untouchable, able to slough off political barbs and even an assassin's bullet. His luck had grown so legendary that it was tempting to believe he would again beat the odds, that the polyp in his bowel would be found benign. But last week Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the chief of surgery at the National Institute of Cancer, reminded the nation in a single chilling sentence that Ronald Reagan is a vulnerable human after all. "The President," stated the doctor, "has cancer...