... dishonesty in implementing state-owned
projects.
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understand a direct speech; in contrast, there remain some hints in indirect speech and one
has to know the rules to interpret the meaning.
Americans ... "
Correspondingly, to understand written American language in common and American
articles in particular, one must be able to find out the subject and the main verb. In this case,
subject and main verb ... smarter. This is because being open and direct in expressing opinions, desires,
preferences, and feelings, or in discussing issues, events, and most ideas is considered proper
in the United States.
However,...
... complaining and criticizing someone or
something (face-damaging acts). Therefore, most Vietnamese are at first shocked at the
American direct way of communicating in general and criticizing in ... paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals for conveying
intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news,
advertisements, proceeding of ... "
Correspondingly, to understand written American language in common and American
articles in particular, one must be able to find out the subject and the main verb. In this case,
subject and main verb...
... of Cancer inAmerican Adults
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The Burden of Cancer inAmerican Adults
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10 20 30 40 50 60
0
10 20 30 40 50
The Burden of Cancer inAmerican Adults
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The Burden of Cancer inAmerican Adults
25
Direct ... Burden of Cancer inAmerican Adults
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Having a history of cancer does not necessarily result in current avoidance of
smoking, however. The overall prevalence of current smoking is similar among
adults ... survivability of cancer. Over 5%
of American adults—10.6 million people—report ever having had cancer,
excluding basal or squamous cell skin cancer. The most prevalent cancer in
American adults is breast...
... the proteins eluting in the void
peak (fractions 30–40 in Fig. 1A), but without any
prominent smaller peaks in the region where the type I
AFPs elute in winter flounder plasma [13]. A single
peak ... alanine-rich side was helpful in identifying
this as the ice-binding face of the AFP [11].
Two puzzling issues have persisted in this field for
many years. One is that AFPs have not been found in
some ... alanine-rich
single a-helices that have an 11-amino-acid periodicity.
They are one of five distinct nonhomologous types
of AFP found in fishes [5] and they are present in
some righteye flounders, including...
... "nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. In proportion as you give it power it
will inquire into everything, settle everything, meddle in everything. In an ordinary despotism ... cannot be induced to pay much heed to the details, or even to the main principles, of
law-making, unless something else more interesting than the law itself be involved in the pending decision ... Committees. Appearing before those Committees in person, or addressing them more formally in
writing, they explain and urge the appropriations asked in the "Letter" containing the estimates....
... pointed out in (Gardent et al.,
1996), is that a HOU algorithm can take world know-
ledge into account, which is sometimes necessary for
determining contrast. For instance, the contrast in ... knowledge that kicking the ball
into the wrong goal implies scoring a goal for the
opposing team. In a HOU approach, the contrast
in this example might be predicted by unifying the
representation ... contrastive information.
2 Predicting contrastive
accent
In this section I discuss two approaches to predicting
contrastive accent, which were put forward by Scott
Prevost (1995) and Stephen Pulinan...
... Szittya
Brookings Institution
Outreach Directors
Julie Clover
Anne Hardenbergh
Brookings Institution
Lisa Markman
Princeton University
The Failures of American Education
Since the publication, in 1983, ... could provide the
incentive and part of the financing for selected
schools to implement creative plans for improving
HASKINS & LOEB | A PLAN TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF TEACHING INAMERICAN SCHOOLS ... emphasizes clos-
ing the gap in achievement between middle-class
students and their poor and minority peers.
HASKINS & LOEB | A PLAN TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF TEACHING INAMERICAN SCHOOLS...
... changes involved
in crossing a continent, in winning a wilderness, and in developing at each area of this progress out of the
primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier into the ... west.
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finding rivals in the grain-raising area of interior Virginia and Maryland. Charleston prospered as the
up-country of the Carolinas grew. Writing in the middle of the eighteenth ... Tribunals"; Shinn, "Mining
Camps."
[10:1] See the suggestive paper by Prof. Jesse Macy, "The Institutional Beginnings of a Western State."
[10:2] Shinn, "Mining Camps."
CHAPTER...
... sight was one of infinite
pain to us, a land very fertile and beautiful, abounding in springs and streams, the hamlets deserted and
burned, the people thin and weak, all fleeing or in concealment. ... through
honest terror, fell fainting in their boats. The Indians then explained to Cartier that their god had sent a
warning to the presumptuous strangers, bidding them refrain from the intended voyage. Cartier ... man to infringe or rashly to contradict this letter of our commendation,
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which gradually increased and became formidable, joining in murmurs...
... the conclusion that negroes must be introduced into the West Indies. Writing in
January, 1518, when the fathers could not have known what was passing in Spain in relation to this subject,
they ... water, our lodgings Castles in the ayre.
With this lodging and dyet, our extreame toils in bearing and planting Pallisadoes, so strained and bruised vs,
and our continuall labour in the extremitie ... Account
THE FOUNDING OF JAMESTOWN (1607). By Captain John Smith
THE FIRST AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1819). By John Twine, its Secretary
THE ORIGIN OF NEGRO SLAVERY IN AMERICA:
I. In the West Indies...
... haven't seen her in ages.
He's in hospital = He's in the hospital.
I'll see you at the weekend = I'll see you over the weekend.
In future = In the future
Five ... spelling của B.E. và
Webster’s cho A.E. Khi cụ Johnson soạn cuốn Oxford cụ chọn “spelling” theo gốc
Pháp vì muốn dân Anh viết thuần nhất, còn bác Webster thì chọn lối “spelling”
gốc Latin, ... ngày, tiếng Anh của người Anh (British
English, B.E.) và tiếng Anh của người Mỹ có một ít điểm khác nhau. Và sau đây là
một số thí dụ :
British English or American
English?
bên A.E....
... with death, British troops have
fought in turn against Frenchmen and Germans, against Russians and Austrians,
against Bulgarians, Turks and Chinamen, against Boers, and even against Americans, ... when riding in side-cars or motors
miles in rear of our guns. And to Infantry marching along dusty roads under an Italian
sun there is something very irritating in a motor car dashing past, ...
reclining in easy positions, its siren hideously shrieking, and blinding dust-clouds
rising in its wake.
to allow only one vehicle to pass at a time, and at each there is a guard of Carabinieri...
... is indicative of a passage in our history.
Pleasantville is not a mere historical commentary saying that American whites were reluctant to
incorporate blacks into their ideal world. It is saying ... blacks started showing up in traditionally white neighborhoods and attending their schools,
whites did not take it lightly. They were enjoying their world in isolation, away from any
minorities that ... people acting differently from before. That is unwelcome in
Pleasantville since it was already such a perfect place where the biggest problem was choosing
what to eat at Bill's diner. The...
... faces the tedious routine and typical lifestyle of the shearers focusing on Foley, the brawling,
hard-drinking Aussie bloke. Facing the crucial issue of the day, the 9-year shearing strike, Foley
looses ... shearing industry portrayed in the film depicts the lifestyle of the typical Aussie male. The
sense of competitiveness within the industry is apparent in a scene where a shearer puts oil in his
shoe ... cultural and institutional
factors contributing to the content of the films.
"Sunday Too Far Away" (1975) is a film set in 1955 about the events surrounding sheep shearing.
It faces...