Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student's concentration. These dual exemptions offer the politically minded honors candidate a rewarding exercise in gerrymandering; courses can be juggled to achieve the optimal mix of grades in the various categories. Thus, by employing a simple sleight of hand, the deft senior tutor or undergraduate can shroud sub-standard grades in new-found respectability...
...horizons for academic birds rule excludes from the honors taken to meet concentration of the courses taken outside a These dual exemptions offer the candidate a rewarding exercise can be juggled to achieve the in the various categories. Thus by of hand, the deft senior tutor or should sub-standard grades...
...landscape rolls open as the ocean right up to the edge of town. Winter lasts about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt and ice and frost, sparkling through clouds of steam and smoke, the air itself turned to veils. The cold and the seeping, whistling presence they call "that wind!" are eerie and somehow ominous...
President Reagan was impressed by the technical information: the receptors on the sub's hull that act like the sensory organs on a shark, the missile rooms that are dubbed Sherwood Forest because the green missile tubes resemble a stand of trees. Praising the author, the President is said to have wondered, "How in the world did he have all this knowledge...
Clancy may also be faulted for setting up a model of macho military behavior that includes potential disobedience of orders. In his zeal to defend the defecting Red October from an Alfa-class Soviet hunter, the commander of a U.S. attack sub considers torpedoing the Alfa on his own authority. Another American officer vows that if the Soviets fire at Red October, then he will destroy the hunter, "and rules of engagement be damned...