Word: echo
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...around about a particular class and people who've never spoken will echo each other's assessments, sometimes even using the same phrases. How is it that 500 people in a lecture class independently come to the conclusion that "the lectures are archaic, the head TF sounds like Marge Simpson, the midterm was hard and the professor is brilliant but incomprehensible...
...executed during the same period. Although Ryan had consistently defended the death penalty until now, another exoneration last month and a scathing review of the justice system by the Chicago Tribune apparently convinced him to change his mind. In a statement that we should expect our political leaders to echo, Ryan said, "Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate...
...problem, they claim, lies in what appears to be an innocuous clause of the "Brown Standards of Student Conduct." Section IIB of the standards states that "behavior which shows flagrant disrespect for the well-being of others" can be subject to disciplinary action--a close echo of Harvard College's own guidelines, which specify punishment for "grave disrespect to the dignity of others...
Ford, Nissan and other carmakers are focusing their attention on a generation barely old enough to drive, because the 70 million or so echo boomers (born between 1977 and 1994) may grow up to be the most affluent generation ever. But unlike their parents, the echo boomers claim to have no interest in driving elephantine, fuel-swilling sport-utility vehicles and trucks...
...alleged attacker was Michael Abram, 33, from the Liverpool suburb of Huyton. Nicknamed "Mad Mike" by neighborhood children, Abram was occasionally seen listening to a Walkman and serenading no one in particular from the balcony of his apartment. His mother told the Liverpool Echo that he had recently become obsessed with the Beatles but "hates them and even believes they are witches." He wore a Walkman, she said, "to stop voices in his head...