Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressures for compromise are great," said Gregory Dees, fellow at the B-School Program of Ethics and the Professions. "It takes a certain amount of courage, stamina and commitment to values" to maintain ethical standards in the business community...
...tried to get on line with our neighbor, a near riot ensued. The attackers demanded that my roommate get to end of the line. She acquiesced. When they finally calmed down, one of them suggested that she might obtain a good spot on the line in exchange for certain sexual favors...
Most alarming is the fact that a rape occurred in a Harvard academic facility. The true significance of the December 7 Science Center rape is that it has reflected the fact that women are being restricted from going to certain places, University academic and residential facilities no less, at certain times on account of their sex. That no regulation to that effect has been enacted is of no significance; the threat of incurring rape is a more effective deterrent than any Administrative Board decree...
Show business having turned into a vast antechamber for the Betty Ford Center, one has to have a certain sympathy for Bert Rigby (Robert Lindsay), whose career is founded on nothing more complicated or newsworthy than a nosebleed...
...western Kansas ranchers claim a certain kinship with those fictional adventurers because they too have been brutalized by the great weathers of the plains. After the record drought of 1988, they are weakened and vulnerable to a huge, leering sky that still will not yield moisture...