Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...there any way out? The U.S. is not the only government going bankrupt from interest payments. Much of the Third World also owes billions to rich Americans, among others. Many Third World governments have defaulted on their debts in one way or another. Outright renunciation is uncommon, but forced renegotiation and freezes on interest payments are not. Perhaps we should try something similar...
...rows are uncommon as it is," said coxswain Travis Metz, "so we felt lucky just to have the chance at a second race. The starter definitely messed up the commands and I think a restart was in order...
While refusing a ROTC cadet commission becauseof sexual orientation is not uncommon, the recentcase is the first time that a student has beenordered by the Army to repay scholarship money,according to Kathleen T. Dyer, an aide to Studds...
Beguiled as one generally is by the professionalism of The Hunt for Red October, pleased as one is by its celebration of reasonable men attempting to overcome cold war paranoia when such efforts were even more uncommon, one cannot help wondering: Will the movie seem an anachronism in this moment of revolutionary change? Or do the events of recent months make the movie even more treasurable as possibly the last, and by no means the least, of its kind...