Word: trailing
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...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...
...hard to perform a successful “global search.” In fact, this is another reason you should not try to make any friends at another college. For one thing, it’s lame and worthless, but more importantly, it will leave a trail of acquaintances in your wake—and that may be your downfall...
...fuzzy math” fracas was not an isolated case. Assertiveness has trumped accuracy, some have alleged, elsewhere on Gordon’s campaign trail...
Glances of recognition and excited murmurs reportedly trail the famed professor around the Princeton campus, just as they once did back in Cambridge. His lectures and seminars are wildly popular among students, but some don’t seem to take him seriously as a scholar—largely because he has continued pursuing the kinds of projects that got him into trouble with Summers...
Meanwhile, Escareño, who is using video to document the site, reviews the day’s footage on an LCD screen. The camera follows a trail of red-orange fungus that streaks across his tree. He is working in what he calls “the cemetery of the cemetery”—where gardeners dispose of organic waste. “I almost got hit today,” he says of the rain of tree branches over the area...