Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homework--who can either tell him something about Exxon or have logical questions. "If it's such a big moment in you life, have you done all you can to prepare for it?" After 11 years of recruiting, he still finds interviewees who are obviously unprepared, who "ask a bunch of rambling questions from left field or just respond to pauses in the conversation...
...Third World flexing its muscles. We ask, Where will the price go? Ten years ago not a single economist could foresee a tenfold increase in price. OPEC is a Club, not quite a cartel, not as well organized as the Texas Railroad Commission, sometimes more like a bunch of 18th century privateers waiting for the fat Spanish galleons to pass. It has survived a 35% drop in demand for its oil. in 1975; it has survived late-night screaming among its members at meetings; it has survived even a real shooting war between two of its major producers...
...been strapped blindfolded to a chair for nine hours. He added: "The gun was held to her head for the entire time as they accused her of being a CIA agent. She figured that they were going to kill her anyway, so she told them they were a bunch of s.o.b.s...
...stupid. It's just that most of them never take enough time to hear what people are saying, to try perceiving things from the viewpoints of those who disagree. The set of beliefs produces a system where only the most confident (some would say arrogant) and aggressive in the bunch get the undergraduate education that Harvard University should be giving each of its students. The rest, left to flounder in the nether reaches of the Economics, Biology or History departments and to deal with professors who should have given up teaching long ago, are chewed up and forgotten. They emerge...
...soon-to-be obsolescent IAB stomped and stamped, exhorting the Crimson defense. Seldom have so many Crimson hoop fans cheered so loudly for so long. And even if Bowers ultimately performed a one-man wrecking job, he could not dispel the image of a fired-up bunch of devotees in the cramped quarters...