Word: brings
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...long to address racial issues and form organizations such as the Racial Harassment Committee. "Minority groups have been encouraging the university for years to take measures so subtle racism won't become explosive," Braxton says. "It's unfortunate that it takes a Currier House 'nigger strike force' to bring it to the attention of the University administration...
...more for Boston and Cambridge than any other local figure in the last 50 years," Frank says. The Speaker worked hard to bring money and jobs to his district, including recent efforts to keep a local arsenal open and to improve Boston's tangled expressways...
...bring a lot of energy to the job," Shinagel said. "We felt [that] would be an excellent quality for the largest undergraduate house...
...moment, Talbot considers abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...
Like a missionary spreading the gospel, the Soviet leader wasted no opportunity to talk up his policies. "If we are silent about certain shortcomings, then they inevitably grow," he warned. "Half-truth is worse than a lie." Gorbachev, 56, also spoke glowingly of Soviet attempts to bring "democracy closer to man," words that must have chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would...