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<div>Leif,</div>
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<div>Please send a list of authoritative editors to me for review;
I'll let you know in a later posting whether they really are. I'm the
last word on this crap; I leveraged myself into the position.</div>
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<div>dInIs</div>
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<div>PS: As you can see from my last two posts, you shouldn't check
your mail right after dinner - at least not when it includes a
delicious bottle of Te Kairanga Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand). Get one
and drink it. Thank me later.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Maybe I'm
too much of a purist, but I was under the impression that using
"leverage" as a verb is still something we're hoping won't
make it into proper usage. Have I lost this battle, or are
authoritative editors still holding out with me?</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
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<div>-- <br>
Dennis R. Preston<br>
Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>
Michigan State University<br>
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA<br>
preston@pilot.msu.edu<br>
Office: (517)353-0740<br>
Fax: (517)432-2736</div>
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