Word: almost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...activism continued almost until his death. On Tuesday, he engaged in an angry exchange with Gorbachev in the Parliament over the party's monopoly on political power...
Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...
...Almost obscured amid the uproar--and the later discovery of Soviet-made arm shipments to the region--were the very real connections between Harvard University and two of the slain...
...facts speak for themselves. Since the intifada began just over two years ago, almost 600 Palestinians have been killed, about 2000 imprisoned without trial and 58 deported in violation of international law. Divide those figures by the number of days and you see just how routine Israeli human rights abuses really are. Denial is not a good option for the Zealots...
...students with little concern for the outcome. If the University wants people to enjoy and become interested in the sciences, there need to be more teachers hired with quality teaching skills and an ability to communicate their excitement with the subject matter. TF's and CA's at Harvard almost always know their subject thoroughly and are talented thinkers, but a student is just as likely to have one skilled in teaching as having an incoherent one, so that it seems that teaching ability is not even a criteria in selecting section leaders...