Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often, there is the temptation to just let it all go and throw in the towel...
...these critical improvements, I believe, can be achieved through one change in the system: have students read each others' writing. Professors and TFs should allot 20 minutes of the section near the time papers are assigned for students to throw around ideas for paper topics. Do the same as the deadline approaches, so that students may share research tips, discuss writing strategies and, in general, help one another produce work of a higher quality...
...that President Clinton vowed publicly would never be mined. But about which he may have spoken too soon. For Margaret Reeb is not simply the eccentric heroine in her own romantic western. A bona-fide scion of the mining heroes she celebrates, she has the financial leverage to throw a shudder into the massive federal machinery she believes would grind up their dream...
Crunch time: I'm into the fifth day of the second week, which means that either tomorrow or Thursday, I've got to go cold turkey on ferry sinkings, militia uprisings and men biting dogs. But what about those jolly bits that the media throw in so you won't despair entirely? For instance, last week Reuters reported that a fellow in Toronto walked into a bank lobby carrying a live goose. Sounds like a joke ("Gimme a 20-year, fixed-rate mortgage, and one for my friend here"). But no; guy actually says, "Give me some money...
When one of our babies woke up before dawn, did I recite The Canterbury Tales to her in a way that stimulated the bejesus out of her brain circuitry, or did I just mutter unintelligibly, "Where the hell did she throw the bottle now?" At this point, it isn't even easy to remember precisely what I said to my kids when they were teenagers. Just last month I got in touch with both of my daughters to make sure we'd remembered to tell them not to join any cults...