Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leadership decisions are too often either made too quickly or too slowly--it's hard sometimes not to jump on the bandwagon and cast your feet in concrete too quickly," Sununu said. "But we have a President who thinks that pace is important, and he thinks that things must be done slowly and significantly...
Green was dismayed by the prevalence of drugs, weapons and racial tensions in the New York schools. He suspended two community school boards tainted by corruption. He was disillusioned when only 6% of voters cast ballots for board members. Last week a school administrator and a teacher were arrested for selling cocaine, and the trial of a principal accused of buying crack ended in a hung jury...
...campaign in the three months before the May 7 voting. Washington funneled some $10 million in campaign funds to the opposition, evidently hoping that if Endara and his running mates won, Noriega would be forced to reach an accommodation with them. As Panamanians turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots, Endara had reason to be confident: polls showed he was favored over Duque by at least 2 to 1 and perhaps by as much as 3 to 1. But Noriega apparently deluded himself into believing that Duque, a self- styled populist, could win with only minimal cheating...
...this same consumerist/hedonist world of Black fraternities-their rather ordinary level of bourgeois selfdefinition--that causes me to cast a wary eye on them today, and which ought to cause Harvard Black students to do likewise. Although some Black Greeks have adult branches involved in voter registration and in community uplift activity such as Big-Brother and Big-Sister mentoring, they are mainly still instruments of a consumerist/hedonist bourgeois world view...
UNLIKE the wary eye I cast on Black Greeks, I cast smiling eyes on York Eggleston's new edition of Outlook. A couple of the essays are intellectually exquisite, especially one by Kelly Mikelson, called "Mixed," about growing up as a light-skinned Black in a white foster family in Iowa. There are also several fine poems by Lisa White and Kevin Young...