Word: terming
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Professors currently receive copies of students' questionnaires at the end of the term...
Dornan was first elected to Congress in 1976. He then held three different California seats--in the 27th, 38th, and 46th districts--for a total of nine terms. However, on election night, November 5, 1996, 1,212 late absentee ballots blocked his bid for a 10th term...
...could change one thing, it would be to introduce term limits in Congress," he said, complaining of what he said is the disproportionate clout of incumbents...
...long-term effect of this isolation appears to be a generation of juvenile delinquents. "The whole thing has much to do with the setup of elephant society," says zoologist Marian Garai, a Swiss-born South African who has been studying the relocation. Under normal circumstances, she says, a dominant older male elephant is around to keep young bulls in line. For the newly arrived youngsters, however, no such role models were provided, and Garai believes this may have had a profound effect on the elephants' psychology...
...arrived on the scene, a sort of academy of spontaneity had formed in New York. Painters all over America had deduced from Abstract Expressionism that art, to be sincere, must be thick and splashy, so that the galleries were full of conventional signs for unconvention. A postmodernist before the term got going, Lichtenstein realized that in art, though style may not be everything, everything is style: every kind of image comes to us packaged in terms that inexorably turn into conventions. He was antinuance, antiheroism, antiexistentialist. With good humor and icy elegance, coupled with a genuine liking...