Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room exchange program will help eliminate certain stereotypes affixed to Houses and stem the flow of requests for permanent House transfers, proponents of the proposal said...
Junior back Wendy Sands played particularly well, intercepting several B.C. centering passes and preventing a certain Eagle tally with a spectacular head save early in the second half...
...countries represented at the meeting were members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, a subgroup of OPEC that accounts for more than 60% of its production. Given the Arabs' weight in OPEC councils, it is almost certain that some price increase, possibly along the lines of the Saudi Arabians' suggestion of 5% on Jan. 1 followed by subsequent hikes of 2% or 3% at "relatively frequent intervals," will be adopted when all the cartel's members meet in Abu Dhabi in December...
Four faceless London clerks, nearly invisible even to their employers, share an office. So vague is their work that even they are not sure exactly what it is they do. Only one thing is certain: they are about to retire, a prelude to dispiriting old age. Barbara Pym, in her first novel in 16 years, indelibly sketches this Quartet in Autumn, whose lives, spent in bedsitting rooms or empty homes, are marked with small regrets and smaller pleasures...
...movie past. It is full of "moments," if not full roles, that he relishes. Director John Ford, for whom he worked seven times, was a major influence: "If there is a style that emerged from that group of actors who worked repeatedly with Ford, it was a certain spareness. You learned to rein in your emotions. If they're there, they are going to color your voice, show in your face, the way you move...