Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing.

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The in class mid-terms--the grades will be roughly 10% problem sets, 20% first mid-term, 30% second mid-term, 40% final.

期中那次是随堂考,在最后成绩中,习题成绩占10%,第一次期中占20%,第二次期中占30%,期末考试占40%

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There's one professor here who toasts his class with a champagne at the end of a term.

有一个教授期末在班上用香槟敬酒。

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Ms Carr, a teaching assistant in the girls' class last term, was arrested on suspicion of murdering them.

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By entrepreneurs I mean specifically the narrow class the term has come to define in the last decade: specifically technology entrepreneurs who start companies to build products or services with some sort of technological innovation at its core, with the Internet playing an important role in the venture.

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Each year, I analyze the primary drivers of asset class long-term returns including risk as measured by implied volatility, expected earnings growth based on GDP estimates and foreign business expansion, market implied inflation based on the spread between long-term Treasury Bonds and TIPS, and current cash payouts from interest and dividends on bond and stock indexes.

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