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This lexicographical trend won't cure the textualists' reputation for stiltedness; reading some of these opinions is like listening to the high-school valedictorian who inevitably begins, "I didn't know what to say today, so I looked up the word 'commencement.
See also the University’s ceremonial silver and the Great Chair, a triangular-shaped affair, on which the incumbent Harvard president has to sit each year at commencement.
a demonstration that the unit will achieve, while combusting fuel in accordance withparagraph (2) and operating the sulfur dioxide control technology specified in paragraph (1), a specified tonnage of sulfur dioxide emission reductions during the period starting with the commencement of operation of sulfur dioxide technology under subparagraph (1) through 2009.
1994 Commencement Committee
a statement that, during the period starting with the commencement of operation of sulfurdioxide technology under paragraph (1) through 2009, the unit will combust Eastern bituminous at a percentage of the unit's total heat input equal to or exceeding the percentage of total heat input combusted by the unit in 2001 if the unit is allocated the sulfur dioxide allowances requested under paragraph (4).