Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns projecting reports from their laptops onto a large white screen. A shaft of sunlight streaming through the windows makes the reports look a little faint. "We normally save these for cloudy days," Gordon jokes. Jose's group goes last and offers a presentation on geothermal energy that would impress in a corporate boardroom. When the students finish, their teacher nods approvingly. The class applauds. After a while, you hardly notice the glare...
...girl out here, and you can see that's part of the thrill--to draw in some slacker with nothing but an art-project hairdo and more hormones than r.p.m. and then smoke him. A slack-eyed Fonz named Marcus gets out of a car and spins over to impress Erica with how many times he can say cool in a sentence, a rebel without a clue. She isn't here to talk...
Because of their brief reportorial careers, Lewis and her sister know many celebrities. Lewis, who has a place in a tony apartment building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue across from Central Park, was not above dropping her daughter's job to impress. When Kevin McDonough, the editor of her book The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, told Lewis he was leaving New York City to do some work in Washington, Lewis told him, "My daughter works at the White House. She can give you a tour...
...properly assessed. In all likelihood, the formidable bureaucracy of the Core will crumble under the force of its own weight eventually and yield to the sensible solution of distribution requirements inspired by the philosophy of the Core. In the mean-time, we must petition for relevant departmental bypasses and impress upon the Faculty that the system instituted in the 1970s has worn out its welcome...
Trailing 3-1 as the third period began, the Crimson surrendered four goals to the Wildcats (18-2-1, 10-0-1 ECAC). Senior Jen Bowdoin continued to impress in net, making numerous sprawling saves. After UNH made it 4-1 with 18:11 to play in the third, wildcat sophomore forward Kali Wilson nearly stuffed in another score...