Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this Monday morning, as hundreds of frazzled journalists followed hundreds of frazzled campaign staffers and their equally frazzled (though hiding it quite well) candidates from bake sale to support group to school at a hundred different press conferences with equally bad lighting and equally stilted speeches, Bricka set off--unfettered by the petty questions of politics--into the wide blue yonder. He plans to walk the Pacific Ocean to Sydney, a trip which will take him across 7,800 miles in six months, provided he struggles forward at an average of 14 hours a day. One oceanographer was quoted...
...financing. Versity.com, for example, has attracted $11.2 million from investors in just one year, while StudentU.com has some $6 million invested in its operations. The investors leave little doubt about the true motives of the notes companies. One of them justified the investment because, according to the Detroit Free Press, he hoped that the notes company "will make a lot of money...
...secure revenue from website advertising, companies recruit notetakers through aggressive advertising campaigns. They send e-mails, create websites, post ads in the local college press, employ students to hand out pamphlets outside our classrooms and visit greek houses to market products. Companies give out freebies and hold contests that offer lucrative prizes. Marketing techniques and the quest for profit have even lead these companies to dismiss professors' complaints and make misleading and false statements in the press, claiming support from professors and students...
...evening on the East Coast, the Associated Press delegate tally showed Gore with 975 of the 2,170 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer in Los Angeles. Bradley...
...certainly not Boston's greatest hockey player, he is certainly one of the greatest. On paper, he is a five-time winner of the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenseman and holds the record for most regular-season goals among defensemen in NHL history. The Associated Press ranked Bourque the 10th best hockey player of the 20th century...