Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After that I was certain Harvard would deliver the game-winner, as it had done so many times last year. But Cahill refused to let that happen. Late in the third she hustled out of the crease to prevent Francisco from scoring on a breakaway that would have given Harvard its first lead of the game. That play gave Dartmouth new life, and the Big Green cashed in during overtime...
Bush won't talk about Talbott specifically, but he will say "there is a certain East Coast attitude," an "intellectual arrogance" that he "didn't find very appealing" at Yale or, later, Harvard Business School. He suggests that the intellectual elite at Yale dismissed him as inferior, that there was, in his words, a "'You're from Texas, therefore' attitude" he resented. "And I still believe," he says, "that just because somebody's got an Ivy League title by their name doesn't make them smarter than anybody else...
...Glass is certain that some of the books, videos and other products in the stores he would personally find offensive. He just doesn't know what they are. "When you have 100,000 unique SKUs," he says, using the retailer's term for an item--a stock keeping unit--"something is going to irritate somebody...
...There is a certain severity beneath the lighthearted attitude the movie adopts--not every scene is a humorous denial of the life or death crisis the shtetl faces. The villager elected to play the head fake Nazi goes through his own psychological crisis, and the whole ordeal seems to sorely test the shtetl's religious faith. Even as the shtetl is fleeing death, it runs straight into its own humanity. The most serious crisis in the movie occurs not when they are dealing with real Nazis or are otherwise close to disaster, but when they explicitly ask if God exists...
...gave me a chance to explore and meet certain people I would never have had a chance to meet before," Anderson said...