Word: cetera
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...that "unbridled partisanship implants within our free system the seeds of its destruction." A collision is coming, he said. "Americans are demanding performance, not partisanship, not provocations, not promises." The Democrats in their midterm convention in Philadelphia last summer seemed like a collection of caucuses (gays, women, blacks, et cetera) fiercely loyal only to themselves. If there was a transcending theme, nobody caught it amid all the self-centered statements and accusations...
...which it it written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." We now have animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered...
Solomon: First of all, when we passed this law, we simply added to a list of other qualifications that students today have to comply with means test, being a high school graduate, et cetra, et cetera, et cetera. There are probably about some twenty-five various qualifications before you can qualify for a scholarship or Pell Grant. We simply added another qualification which they have to comply with. That's the law. The universities today are enforcing the other qualifications that are in the law, and we've added one more. So it isn't like we're asking them...