Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late last year, the college sent students a letter discussing the proposal and invited undergraduate comment on the proposed "IDenticard" locks. The system would cost between $300,000 to $450,000 and could be opened by Williams...
...write this letter. In my phone conversation with Ross Forman regarding the Mainstage petition, I repeated several times that I was not involved in circulating or developing the petition--in fact, had only heard about it that very day--and that I would not take sides. I agreed to comment on the situation, but I did not wish to pit one organization against another because of my active involvement in each...
...governor's office, the state attorney general's office, state police officials, and Bridgewater State College officials refused all comment on the investigation...
...laborers. A Canadian host who speaks Russian heard Gorbachev mutter under his breath, "We are not going to see this ((in the Soviet Union)) for another 50 years." Eugene Whelan, then Minister of Agriculture and Gorbachev's official host, was surprised on another occasion to hear the Soviet leader comment about the invasion of Afghanistan: "It was a mistake." (He was later to call Afghanistan a "bleeding wound," but in public he still justifies the invasion.) In the same year, however, Gorbachev served on a Politburo crisis- management subgroup that sought to justify the Soviet downing of a Korean...
...hard time simply being themselves. Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks. Deighton can rarely resist the temptation to point out the big issues behind his narrative. He interrupts a scene of trench warfare with a sweeping comment on some of the combatants: "They were Germans, and their readiness to obey instructions was a measure of their civilization, and their tragedy...