Word: splits
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...precisely because seniors are (on average) better readers and writers that they will get more out of Senior Seminars than first-years. The faculty can be sure that difficult texts will be understood; they will not need to serve as writing teachers, who must correct split infinitives and demand parallel construction. On efficiency grounds--getting the best use of the senior faculty's time--Senior Seminars are clearly preferable to Freshman Seminars...
...Having split the voters who hate deficits from the voters who hate taxes even more, Forbes has gone on to break a very fragile peace: the one between the party's moderates and its social conservatives. Last week, after Buchanan shocked the party and punctured Phil Gramm's campaign by beating him in Louisiana, the whole race looked like it was opening up--and the G.O.P. coalition like it was falling apart. Attracted to his relaxed views on abortion and homosexuality, social libertarians went for Forbes; values conservatives for Buchanan; supply siders for Forbes; deficit hawks for Dole; anxious economic...
...force Clinton to do things," says Kristol, but that the Congress could send him legislation that presented unpalatable choices--on welfare, for instance. "You could put him in a very difficult position: either...be the person who prevented us from reforming welfare, or sign Republican welfare reform and really split his own constituency...
...like, 3 in the morning, working, so I woke up at 11, logged in from home, looked at Quote.Com. My eyes went..." He makes a face of astonishment. The stock was expected to sell at $28; instead it opened at $71 (it has since had a 2-for-1 split). "Then," he says, "I went back to sleep...
Serrentino, the radio producer, says Dartmouth offers "a very healthy split of opinion...