Word: statement
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...endorsement, students must submit a transcript, a list of activities and a 1,000-word "signed, connected personal statement of general activities and intellectual interests in college and proposed course of study...
...less extreme statement of the principle that performance should be valued over potential is sound, but Lemann's statement that this principle is blatantly violated in today's America is not entirely convincing. Certainly, higher education is strongly linked to money and power and an impressive college credential carries weight. But Americans rarely work at the same job their entire lives these days. Our entire lives are tests, and to whatever end, the college-educated workforce is a driven population...
...least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement," fretted Illinois representative Ray LaHood. Added Indiana representative Mark Souder, "If the impression comes out that we're into Social Security but not admitting it, that's almost worse than [spending the money...
...statement, she says that "[W]e don't offer a basic course in accounting that lays out the nuts and bolts of debits and credits. All MBA students already have workplace experience, and our focus is on educating general managers...
...strained the traditional U.S.-Indonesia alliance, although you wouldn't think so to hear Indonesian leaders talk about it. Defense Secretary Cohen on Thursday sternly warned the Indonesian military to clean up its act during a meeting in Jakarta with armed forces chief General Wiranto. But while Cohen?s statement after the talks accused the Indonesian military of abetting violence in East Timor and warned it to mend its ways, the official Indonesian account of the meeting claimed that the U.S. Defense Secretary had expressed "appreciation for the army?s commitment to human rights and democracy...