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 Non-Errors
Some people claim that “over” cannot be used to signify “more than,” as in “Over a thousand baton-twirlers marched in the parade.” “Over,” they insist, always refers to something physically higher: say, the blimp hovering over the parade route.
Some people insist that “regime” should be used only in reference to governments, and that people who say they are following a dietary regime should instead use “regimen”; but “regime” has been a synonym of “regimen” for over a century, and is widely accepted in that sense.
People who are happy can correctly say they feel good, but if they say they feel well, we know they mean to say they’re healthy.
www.wsu.edu /~brians/errors/nonerrors.html   (2105 words)

  
 The American Geriatrics Society - Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Founded in 1974, the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons is a scientific and educational association of orthopedists and neurosurgeons whose mission is to improve the quality of care for patients by setting high standards for training, credentialing and surgical education.
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is a federation of 50 state health organizations, together representing nearly 12,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, and subacute care providers that care for more than one million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.
The NCCC is part of a national partnership with the American Diabetes Association, the American Geriatrics Society, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Alzheimer's Association, Family Voice, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
www.americangeriatrics.org /links   (1615 words)

  
 List of Alternative Therapies From The International University for Alternative Medicines, Traditional Medicines and ...
Some of these people do not need any extra tools to do that - they just KNOW where is the best place to dig a well or where the gold treasure is hidden.
The method is suited to healthy people who want to increase the flexibility of their bodies and thinking, people with neurological and movement disorders, and those who want to achieve excellence in the arts, sports, or any endeavor.
Native American healers and spiritual leaders seldom travel far from their homes and even more infrequently publicize their work - it is not the way.
www.altmeduniversity.net /alternative.htm   (3452 words)

  
 Wardenburg Health Center | University of Colorado at Boulder
The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for the widespread use and rapid exchange of information among professionals providing health services to college students within institutions of higher education.
The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for the widespread use and rapid exchange of information among professionals providing health promotion and disease prevention services within institutions of higher education.
The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for the widespread use and rapid exchange of information among professionals providing mental health services within institutions of higher education.
www.colorado.edu /healthcenter/resources/listserv.html   (658 words)

  
 Peter Suber, Open-Access Lists (formerly: FOS Lists)
University of California at Santa Cruz: Resolution on ties with Elsevier Journals, adopted by the Committee on the Library and sent to the Faculty Senate, October 24, 2003.
University of California at San Francisco: Challenges to Sustaining Subscriptions for Scholarly Publications, memorandum to all UCSF faculty from Karen Butter, the University Librarian, and Leonard Zegans and David Rempel, co-chairs of the Committee on Library, November 1 2003.
University of California system: Letter to all UC faculty from Lawrence Pitts, Chair of the Academic Senate, and the head librarians of the 11 UC campuses, January 7, 2004.
www.earlham.edu /~peters/fos/lists.htm   (7977 words)

  
 Battle of Britain American Pilots
Ten American pilots flew with units under the command of RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939-45 British campaign star.
During this period the USA was officially neutral, but American pilots were drawn across the Atlantic by the urgency of defending democracy in Europe and their sense of adventure.
Fiske was a graduate of Cambridge University and a leading personality in the American bob sleigh teams that won the Olympic championships in 1928 and 1932.
www.taphilo.com /history/wwii/BofBamericanpilots.shtml   (866 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Ugly sentiments sting American tourists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
As an A-list celebrity, actor Vince Vaughn employs an array of weapons to cope with hecklers, from a Saharan wit to a waiting limo.
From Spanish plazas to Parisian metros, American tourists are being quizzed, grilled and even spat on by people who do not approve of the Bush administration's drive for a war against Saddam Hussein.
When Linda Severson, an American who has lived in Brussels for two years, was visiting Amsterdam recently with her mother, the pair found themselves at the Hard Rock Cafe, surrounded by anti-American protesters.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-03-anti-american-usat_x.htm   (1735 words)

  
 Guantanamo detainees
When Dena Gudaitis, a graduate journalism student at American University, was assigned her final research project for her seminar class last fall, she took the opportunity to do something no one else – including the national media – had done.
Gudaitis was able to build the list by sifting through dozens of reports from U.S. and international news outlets that revealed the identities of some detainees.
“People should be concerned about how the government is setting precedent over the treatment of people during times of war,” she said.
observer.american.edu /2004/mar0304/gtmo.html   (630 words)

  
 American University Library - Film Studies: Internet Sites
Two very handy features of their movie databases are the inclusion of four-star rating system and also when a film is to be shown on television in the coming month, it is noted with an icon linked to the air date and channel.
Depending on the subject area, the lists of websites are not always very exhaustive and there are no annotations.
The University of California at Berkeley maintains an extensive, searchable database of film distributors.
www.library.american.edu /subject/film/internet.html   (1108 words)

  
 Do You Speak American . What Speech Do We Like Best? . Beastly | PBS
Current dictionaries list catsup and catchup as alternative spellings but fail to note that while the former is still fairly common the latter is rarely used by anyone over the age of ten.
People who care at all about how words are pronounced (with the expectation of linguist and lexicographers) seem to reserve their most vehement antipathy for NOO-kyuh-lur and it comes as no surprise to me that a whopping 99 percent of the usage panel of Morris and Morris Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage (1985) condemned it.
Americans and Brits may differ on how to pronounce the first syllable of patriot, but we are happy to agree that the last syllable has an obscure o, as in riot and carrot.
www.pbs.org /speak/speech/beastly   (8604 words)

  
 Yamada Language Center: Native American Mailing Lists
For the purposes of this list, "native" refers to autochthonous peoples of the North Americas (the US, Canada, and Mexico) and neighboring islands, including Hawaii.
This list is a low-volume list (around 5 to 15 messages a week), so it is unlikely that it will fill your mail queue.
This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/lists/nativeam.html   (327 words)

  
 The Trade & Environment Database (TED)
While the neem tree has been used in India for over 2000 years for various purposes such as pesticides, spermicides and toothbrushes, a US company has been suing Indian companies for producing the emulsion because they have a patent on the process.
The dispute is over the rights of companies to conduct research and development by using patents against the interest of the people who live at the source of the resource.
Manufactured by large cheese companies, most American Parmesan cheese is mass-produced and sold in grocery stores everywhere at a competitive, but low price, ensuring that spaghetti and meatballs throughout the United States are garnished with its unmistakably unique flavor.
gurukul.ucc.american.edu /ted/ted.htm   (427 words)

  
 DIABETIC Mailing List Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The original creator of the list, R.N. Hathhorn, says it was created for "the diabetic patient to exchange any ideas, comments, gripes, fears, or whatever, related to your condition." The list is not moderated.
The list has evolved into a kind of support group for people with diabetes and for other interested people.
There is also an OLD collection of documents written by list members and others, or "borrowed" from other sources included for reference.
listserv.lehigh.edu /lists/diabetic   (162 words)

  
 multicultural - Native American Indian
Explores the cultural issues of American Indians who are deaf that may impact on the provision of psychotherapy services.
Data were obtained on a sample of 61 closed cases of persons identified as Native American and deaf who were served by the Arizona Rehabilitation Services Bureau.
Profile of Jonathan Hopkins, one of the few Native American individuals who are employed full-time as professionally certified sign language interpreters.
www.uark.edu /depts/rehabres/mcnai.html   (540 words)

  
 listserv.american.edu
We will create a mailing list for anyone in the American University community who requests one.
Choose this option if you are an instructor at AU and you wish to request a mailing list, listserv, or web-based discussion database for your class.
We will create the list and subscribe you and all registered students in the class.
listserv.american.edu /request.html   (176 words)

  
 List of American University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to the American University in Washington, DC.
A listing of the Chancellors and Presidents of American University, listed together with dates of life and service, as well as concurring notable AU events.
Lists of people by university in the United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_American_University_people   (3821 words)

  
 The Imperial Presidency and Watergate: President Nixon's Grab for Power
Nixon confused people's dislike of him and his Presidency with disloyalty to the nation; he confused personal threats to his own self-esteem with threats to the Nation's health.
This caused many Americans to become angry and bitter at Nixon, with many critics calling him "tricky dickey." They felt that Nixon had lied to them and was now purposely going against the will to the people who wanted an end to the Vietnam war.
Ford claimed he was pardoning Nixon for the "good of the American people," believing that Americans were already too traumatized by the Watergate scandal to endure a formal trial of former-President Nixon.
www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/water.htm   (3539 words)

  
 American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Complete index to and partial text and audio database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by
is an academic society founded in 1973 by people interested in the study of all aspects of public religious communication.
www.americanrhetoric.com   (242 words)

  
 American University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This campus, formerly the Immaculata School, is located half a mile east of the main campus, and was purchased by American University in 1987 specifically for the Washington Semester program.
As of 2006, American University's Library contains over one million volumes, nearly 3,000 print periodicals, over 11,000 films and videos (which is rapidly increasing), well over one million microform materials, nearly 37,000 sound recordings, over 13,000 musical scores, 65 newspaper subscriptions, and 14,500 electronic journals.
In 2006, The Advocate ranked American University among the nation's top 20 schools for LGBT students [22].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_University   (4658 words)

  
 List of Universities of the World
The names of all universities and university level institutions, as provided to IAU by national authorities and competent bodies from 184 countries around the world, are included in this list organized by country.
It should be noted that the designations employed for countries and territories in the World Higher Education Database (WHED) do not imply any expression of opinion of IAU with regard to their status or the delimitations of their frontiers.
The following list is based on data last collected by IAU from national competent authorities in 2005.
www.unesco.org /iau/onlinedatabases/list.html   (226 words)

  
 Reading List for American Studies
The following books are intended to be suggestive of the range and variety of scholarship which has been associated with the American Studies movement of the past five decades.
Included among these volumes are some others which are intended to illustrate the interdisciplinary approach or the promise of certain sub-fields in American culture studies.
This list is not proposed for canonical status.
www.indiana.edu /~amst/readinglist.html   (2015 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: American West History: America West People: American Westward Expansion
American Women of the Early 19th Century
This American West WWW-VL site is currently maintained by Nancy Sween at http://www.vlib.us/americanwest/ and is regularly updated and expanded.
Previously maintained at the University of Kansas, where it began as part of the Kansas Heritage Group.
www.vlib.us /americanwest/people.htm   (586 words)

  
 Days of Infamy : Presented by American RadioWorks
Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States: Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Both times, the Library of Congress sent people out to record the voices of ordinary Americans as they reacted to a changed world.
Archival recordings are courtesy of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/daysofinfamy   (195 words)

  
 lists.richmond.edu Mailing Lists
Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on lists.richmond.edu.
Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription.
List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list.
lists.richmond.edu /mailman/listinfo/preservation-list   (119 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 17.3503: American Sign Language: Lecturer, University of Michigan
The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy.
In particular we urge that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries.
linguistlist.org /issues/17/17-3503.html   (417 words)

  
 American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by Category
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by Category
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
memory.loc.gov /ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Photograph   (792 words)

  
 Open University
In late summer, the Euston Manifesto group in London helped to put the American signers of the statement in touch with one another via e-mail.
The statement and the list of signers was posted on September 12, 2006, and is available here) or by clicking on the "International" icon at the Euston Manifesto website).
Well your corollary is certainly an improvement on the original Euston Manifesto which consists mostly of anti-strawman calls to arms and whining that people still want supporters of Bush's Iraq invasion to admit what a disaster it has been.
www.tnr.com /blog/openuniversity?pid=46814   (966 words)

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