first-year

• “Mom called her first-year analysts “Meat” and bragged that she, in turn, was known as “The Lion.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Worst Years of Your Life

• “At some colleges, freshmen were supposed to be called first-year students; that struck most frosh as a little stiff, but freshman week was replaced in many places by orientation week.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) - wrote a letter to GOP House lawmakers on Wednesday urging them to reject Boehner's debt-limit bill, calling the first-year cuts "inadequate" and arguing it would add trillions to the national debt.”

  NY Daily News

• “Tinnon had his advocates at East, namely his first-year language arts teacher, Amy Kallioinen, who'd taken him under her wing, plead with him to realize his potential, and battled to keep him in school -- but he was hit with a misdemeanor theft charge for the ticket incident, kicked out of East again, and missed the entire hoops season.”

  SI.com

• “I was about to teach the material on arbitration to my first-year civil procedure class and decided to read the fine print that came with the agreement accompanying the computer.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

• “At Essex University, the head of philosophy, Professor Wayne Martin, is passionate about the voluntary module on essay writing he's created for MA and first-year undergraduate students – and he needs to be, because it sounds distinctly time-intensive and is not an official part of his job.”

  The Guardian: Essay writing trips up students

• “The rook hit 21 of 36 passes against the Redskins with nary an interception in only his third start, which is a relief in Detroit seeing as how the league's other first-year starter -- Matt Sanchez, whom the Lions passed on -- is 3-0 with the Jets.”

  Stafford, Vick: Oh, happy day for the M&M quarterbacks - sports

• “But there was one rite of passage that neither he nor any first-year player can really prepare for: his first postseason series.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rangers Wait for Stepan to Step Up

• “With a $350,000 starting salary, a Wharton graduate -- who now works at a private equity firm -- became the highest paid first-year Master in Business Administration graduate in the country last year.”

  The Huffington Post: How's $350,000 For A Starting Salary?

• “Hiram To and Scott Redford "For Your Pleasure—Remake/Remodel" is part of the first-year anniversary of the interesting little 2P Gallery www.2p-gallery.com in Hong Kong's Western District.”

  The Wall Street Journal: For 2011, Art HK Grows Up and Goes Local

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