Word: objecting
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...your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate...
...Senior Lecturer Henry H. Leitner, who teaches Computer Science 51, the notoriously grueling departmental introduction to object-oriented programming, says he believes undergrads are better suited to teaching his course because the students he hires have taken the course very recently and so are intimately familiar with the concepts and assignments...
...Vleck/ is snoring so loud you can look down his neck./ This may not seem very important, I know,/ but it is, so I'm bothering telling you so." There ensued pages and pages of nonsense news about the weird doings of bugs and Seussian creatures. The object was to make a child fall fast asleep...
Getting to see Steve Jobs at Apple is like having an audience with one of the later Roman Emperors, powerfully charismatic men who loved the adulation of the crowd in the Coliseum but made sure to put many veils between themselves and visitors. The object, it seems, is to drench you in anticipation...
...course the Chinese are going to object to anything that makes its 20 nuclear missiles obsolete, which even the most limited version of this system will do - only if it works, of course. So the first question is, does it work? But the Chinese aren?t likely to wait to find out, so the second question is what kind of agreement would be necessary to accommodate their concerns. If we go ahead, essentially we're going to be saying it's preferable for China to build more nuclear missiles to maintain their nuclear deterrent. We have no nuclear arms control...