Word: properness
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...rare occasion when the adjective “reptilian” can be meant as the deepest of compliment. Therefore, we must accord Ripley’s Game the proper admiration for allowing John Malkovich—the most sophisticated yet reptilian actor of our time—to portray Tom Ripley—the most sophisticated yet reptilian character of literature—and create the most reptilian sophisticate in cinema history...
...prime minister. Previous negotiation proposals had indeed allowed Israel to keep some of the settlements in the occupied West Bank, but only as part of a comprehensive agreement with the Palestinian national leadership that included a splitting of Jerusalem and a surrender to the Palestinians of land inside Israel-proper equivalent to that annexed in the West Bank. In the absence of such a comprehensive deal - indeed, in the absence of any involvement at all by the Palestinians in the latest discussions - President Bush's comments are viewed by many Israelis and Arabs as a renunciation of a decades...
Gregory C. Tucci, the assistant director of undergraduate studies in chemistry, says he is worried that without proper advising, students who decide to join departments during sophomore year may have missed the chance to take prerequisite courses...
...Without proper advising, students in their first two years might not be taking the necessary prerequisites to study higher-level material...
...advent of computers, it has become a simple matter to rank all events in order of their suitability as news, using the famous Gannett scale, developed by the well-known newspaper chain and involving such factors as the impact of an event on other events, the number of proper names that are difficult to spell (a negative factor) and the involvement of people from diverse backgrounds (a plus, obviously...