Word: unless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students have adopted shamefully passive attitudes toward learning. We come to the College not as scholars but as consumers, judging professors on the quality of the services they provide instead of using their knowledge as a point of departure for self-motivated learning. We consider knowledge to be illegitimate unless it provides the answer to a test question, wins a grant or looks good on a transcript. And faced with the weaknesses of the undergraduate curriculum, such as a flawed Core curriculum, large class sizes, inadequate mentorship and so on, we are more likely to complain about what...
...result in no tangible job detriment. Burlington Industries employed Kimberly Ellerth, whose supervisor was Theodore Slowik. Ellerth accuses Slowik of unwanted advances, such as telling her to wear shorter skirts and to loosen up and have some "fun." Ellerth also alleges Slowik implied he would demote or dismiss her unless she complied...
...palace was rebuilt in 1995 by conscripted laborers monitored by armed soldiers. Every one of the city's 500,000 citizens was conscripted for three days every month, unless he or she paid a fee. Resistors are subject to rape, torture, imprisonment, execution and a host of other abuses which typify the regime's treatment of dissenters...
...after 20-plus years of school, those of us who suffer from the syndrome might find it genuinely impossible to distinguish whether we are really any good or not at what we do. Unless someone else hands over the good grade or the pay-raise or the thumbs up, we cannot honestly evaluate ourselves. After years of MCAT-like experiences, that ability is now, as the saying goes, out of our hands...
...adds, "Unless you know the values and the standards and the belief systems of the people, it is extremely difficult to interpret their drawings...