Word: albeit
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...Student groups organized letter-writing campaigns, and in April 1948 Professor of Geology Kirtley F. Mather challenged the attorney general to a debate at Harvard. The bill ultimately passed, albeit in a watered-down form...
Student groups organized letter-writingcampaigns, and in April 1948 Professor of GeologyKirtley F. Mather challenged the attorney generalto a debate at Harvard. The bill ultimatelypassed, albeit in a watered-down form...
...pick as a pet project a prickly subject so often swept under the rug? The conference, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "was an attempt by her to forge an image of herself" early in the presidential sweepstakes. Gore, a longtime -- albeit low-key -- advocate for the mentally ill, has recently acknowledged having suffered from depression. With the possible stigma of that ordeal very much in mind, says Branegan, the gathering "was also one way to get out in front of her battle" before it could become an issue for her husband?s campaign...
...moving it forward at a snail's pace, a vote for the left-of-center Barak is construed as a vote for accelerating peace negotiations. However, this kernel of electoral wisdom may not have basis in actuality. If elected, Netanyahu will almost certainly make the concessions necessary for peace, albeit grudgingly. On the other hand, Barak is not the messiah of the peace process some might hope. As a decorated military hero, Barak will only make territorial concessions after painstaking deliberations. When you come right down to it, Barak and Netanyahu are not all that different. The only major difference...
...symbolic vehicle of meaning. It represents Harvard's economic and cultural imperialism, its sexist and elitist tendencies and its dichotomous aspiration to identify with both the British Oxbridge educational model and the American Way of life. The small "green span" we constantly traverse wields at least as much power--albeit of a different sort--as the Fed Head himself. Who knew...