Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply don't know what the relationship'sis between formal complaints and actual behavior,"Bol said...
...brewski until we hit the sand, and instead drank in the intoxicating fresh seashore air. We shelled out two bucks to park in the Crane's Beach parking lot, which was a pretty good deal...or so we thought. The guy who took the money appeared to be an actual park ranger, which we took as a good sign that we were really in nature...
First, we must define ethnic studies. Belying its actual meaning, the word "ethnic" has come to connote the experience of minorities and immigrants in this country.Thus, course in several existing departments--East Asian Studies, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, etc.--do not qualify as "ethnic." In fact, the only departments that can call itself truly ethnic in this sense is Afro-American Studies. "Afro-Am," as it has come to be known, deals primarily with the history, sociology, and literature of Blacks in the United States...
When the group ACT UP coined the slogan "Silence Equals Death" in 1987, it meant political silence. Already by that year, actual silence about the nature of AIDS -- whether through ignorance or timidity -- had been broached. Most Americans, and certainly most people in the then recognized risk groups, knew what the disease was and how one could...
...White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still, as a Clinton aide admits, while "the actual words used before the grand jury regarding how we felt about the RTC iring Stephens were 'surprise and shock,' among ourselves the words we use when we discuss it are what they call 'expletives deleted...