Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atmosphere, colored by streams of newcomers including policemen and even Buddhist monks, changed from tragic to almost festive. A miracle was revealing itself in the center of this ancient empire, a truth which had been buried so deep and so long that it had almost been forgotten: the miracle is their own strength. It is their own strength that the Chinese people are rediscovering right at this moment...
...Almost all of the volumes in Lamont and Hilles are kept in the buildings themselves because the undergraduate libraries can simply remove books from their shelves if demand for them wanes, Cole says. "We can take volumes out of the collection because they can be found elsewhere at Harvard," she says...
...that I mean a Boeing 747 is not state-of-the-art in anything--NASA does things that are much more fancy. But if you've got something that has to fly every day and carry hundreds and hundreds of passengers, it's almost always going to have proven technology that is somewhat older than what someone could imagine today," he adds...
Members of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, which holds final say on the appointment, said last night they will almost certainly confirm Wilson at a noon meeting today...
...went into academic administration almost immediately," said one Michigan official, who characterized Wilson as "among the top half-dozen administrators" at the university...