Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the unusual meeting Monday with about 20 concentrators, Grabowicz agreed to meet with other department heads, investigate the creation of a new department sub-specialty, and look for permanent solutions to a frequently-cited tutorial problem...
Every so often these "language purists" warn us all of the impending danger of linguistic laxity and the proliferation of sub-standard forms into everyday speech. Much as Gerber wants to portray his desire for linguistic homogeneity and restrictiveness as consonant with the historic American values of equality and pluralism, it is in reality a poorly disguised call for institutionalized elitism. What the majority of the public is speaking is only "sub-standard" and "slang" because the author has chosen to call it that, and likewise the standardness of the speech of the privileged is purely arbitary...
Eisert, though, reassures that undergrads need not worry about the council sub-committee throwing the money away. He refers specifically to some investigative work the council did a few years back which resulted in a few saved dollars...
...looking forward to watching some of the younger, liberal Democratic turks who will snag sub-committee chairmanships start raising some muck about, let's say, Reagan's Central America quagmire. And maybe now that he doesn't chair a major committee, people won't listen when Jesse Helms talks. Is this all reason for rejoicing? Yeah. Is it cause for a complacent, more-of-the-same approach...
...Being on the street a lot," Salafia said, "I got to get a glimpse of what it is to be on the street. There's a whole sub-life out there that people just...