Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...decision was filtered down to the various College officials responsible for ordering toilet paper across the campus...
Prothrow-Stith says the burden of being one of very few black female professors at Harvard is that she frequently is called upon to present a "diverse perspective" on various committees and panels. She said that the low numbers of black females make it "hard to gain critical mass...
Kachadorian will not stand trial "for about a year" due to the various pre-trial motions that will likely take place, Heffron said...
...case is a slam dunk: there is no physical evidence tying Markhasev to the murder last January on a freeway off-ramp near Brentwood, Calif., and the only eyewitness failed to identify Markhasev in a police lineup. Most of the case will rest on the easily impeachable testimony of various drug-taking and drug-dealing associates of the defendant's, and a friend who fingered him for a $100,000 bounty offered by the National Enquirer (the friend led cops to a wooded area where Markhasev supposedly hid the gun; police indeed found a pistol, but one lacking any fingerprints...