Sentence examples for ampersat from inspiring English sources

Amherst (Amherst; 1821) and Williams (Williamstown; 1793) colleges have perpetuated traditions of academic excellence at small schools, while Mount Holyoke (South Hadley; 1837), Wellesley (Wellesley; 1870), Smith (Northampton; 1871), and Radcliffe (Cambridge; 1879) colleges have been pioneers in women's education; in 1999 Radcliffe formally merged with Harvard and ceased to exist as a college.

Mitt Romney, the slash-and-burn governor of Massachusetts, has raised hackles in academia by proposing to privatise, in large part, three campuses at the University of Massachusetts, to revamp its Amherst flagship campus with money from more out-of-state students and most heretically to do away with the office of the university president (currently occupied by one of his political foes).

He is the son of Irish immigrants who worked his way through Amherst and Harvard Law School (his doorman father found him work as a doorman).

Although I am an alumnus of Williams College, Amherst's arch-rival, I want to add my voice to those of the irate Amherst graduates who no doubt have castigated you for your error.Seymour Becker New YorkSIR – Surely Britain's independent schools are educating the wrong people.

In Amherst, an Indian firm plans to do its best.

The pious, respectable, intellectual Dickinsons were the leading family in Amherst.

Messrs Card and Krueger moved on to other work, but Arindrajit Dube at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Michael Reich of the University of California at Berkeley have generalised the case-study approach, comparing restaurant employment across all contiguous counties with different minimum-wage levels between 1990 and 2006.

Michelle Budig, a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, studied the impact that becoming a parent had on earnings.

With land-trust-monitored farms in the neighbourhood, houses and land prices may go up, taking them out of the middle-class market.Robert Rakoff, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has studied land-trust conservation in the north-east.

And a casual experiment by a bacteriologist may hold the key.Derek Lovley, of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has been studying "metal-eating" bacteria for two decades.

One recent example is Dr Barnett Slepian of Amherst, New York, shot through his kitchen window by a sniper last October.