Word: conference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes he accepted. It is rarely "accepted", we aren't here to accept or reject. we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we 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 blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
Last month, the senior class voted 2-1 to confer upon the game's winning play their highest commemorative honor: the 1983-Ivy Stone, The Daily Pennsylvanian, the UPenn student newspaper reports...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings that a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular...
After fighting broke out in El Salvador, a group of West European Socialists dodged bullets to meet with leftist rebel leaders. During the siege of Beirut, a delegation of Social Democrats picked its way through rubble to confer with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. When they are not touring global hot spots, representatives of the Socialist International, the umbrella organization for 49 Social Democratic parties in Europe, Asia and the Americas, meet frequently to make pronouncements that, they hope, will be heeded by an estimated 15 million party members worldwide...