Word: paste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...breakthrough was accomplished by skilled undercover work, Government officials told TIME. In the past, investigators had been unable to penetrate the closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...paying off. The Air Force and Justice Department are investigating charges by Arthur Williams, former chief of the contracts-law division at Yokota Air Base, that another dango association has overcharged the Air Force and Navy about $76 million on $180 million worth of communications contracts during the past ten years. Most of the firms practicing dango were window dressing for a subsidiary of NEC, the electronics firm, which consistently got most of the work...
...Crying of Lot 49 (1966) anticipated but arrived just before the triumphant effulgence of television and youth culture in American life; Gravity's Rainbow was chiefly set during World War II. So Vineland amounts to Pynchon's first words on the way we have been living during the past two decades...