Word: usurps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Core curriculum, which has assumed almost cult status as the perfectly useless system of academic requirements, is the most obvious, though by no means the only, example of Harvard's neglect of undergraduate education. Only at Harvard can one find requirements that usurp a quarter of an undergraduate course load without guaranteeing that any student will actual learn anything...
...Clintons, the problem with Cooper's plan is that it threatens to usurp the political turf the Administration needs to claim: the middle ground. The plan appeals to conservatives by shunning the Clinton requirement that all employers pay 80% of workers' health premiums. It appeases moderates by trimming employers' tax deductions on premiums. And it mollifies free marketeers by doing away with Clinton's proposed caps on insurance premiums. "We're the only bipartisan approach," Cooper maintains. "We're true to managed competition...
There is only one reason: television. As other sports usurp more and more viewer attention, television networks, which pay exorbitant sums of money for the right to air baseball games, have lost hundreds of millions of dollars...
...decision whether to press charges belongs to the victim and the district attorney's office, while we offer support and our resources to the student while he or she grapples with this decision, the College would never presume to usurp the student's role or that of the legal authorities...
...material on the inside if not on the outside. Like the Beast, he must get beyond the lowly image he projects and show them what he's made of. This is exactly what he does when he comes head to head with the evil vizier Jafar, who seeks to usurp the throne of Agrabah from Princess Jasmine's father. By being himself and showing his inherent goodness, Aladdin defeats the evil vizier and wins Princess Jasmine's heart...