A: Dear Anna, It sounds as though your postdoctoral research will be in a substantially different area from your Ph.D. work.
If you wouldn't say it to a dear friend, it's time to shake it off, too.
It may have to do with the fact that she writes mostly about women who want to escape some kind of confinement, who are hungry for experience above all else, and who attain it at a dear price, so that we can read about it.
"It is a dear old-fashioned couple who have been living together very happily".
But as New Hampshire is in the shadow of Boston's expensive media market, it is a dear state to campaign in.
There may be sound business reasons for the move, but it is a dear one for investors, who lose a large chunk of every pound transferred over.
South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, said in a televised speech on Monday in Seoul that if the North acted provocatively again, "We will make sure it pays a dear price without fail".
Once positioned on a cliff surrounded by crumbling pillars, it was a dear place of refuge in the first game, a spiritual centre where the elemental warmth of its health-restoring firelight could be enjoyed without fear of attack.
PAGE C1 MOURNING THE CASSETTE There was a funeral the other day in the Midtown offices of Hachette, the book publisher, to mourn the passing of what it called a "dear friend".
When Joan Acocella profiled Louise Bourgeois in The New Yorker, in early 2002, the artist had just passed her ninetieth birthday, but she was very clearly, as Acocella put it, "not a dear old lady".
