Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Working at Harvard is an important opportunity to act on the values many of us held dear in '60s," says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
First, while good intentions might seem like an admirable thing to have, the phrase also conjures up an image of woolly-minded naivete. Those dear old liberals, sitting in their ivory-tower rocking chairs, knitting vast social- welfare blankets from skeins of good intentions and taxpayer money -- What do they know about the real world? The implication is that good intentions are not merely insufficient but even detrimental to the hard business of facing up to the hard truths about poverty and race. Good intentions are for sissies...
...June. It was too late. On April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office at about 6:30 p.m. to drive 11 miles to attend a small political fund raiser in affluent Brentwood. The cause was dear to his heart: opposition to a Los Angeles ballot measure that would, at last, make the police chief more accountable to elected officials. Even though Gates claimed he was at the fund raiser for just five minutes (it was closer to 20) and was in communication with commanders via radio and cellular phone...
...alternative, if that sounds too nasty, is to disinter dear Uncle Sam. I can just see that eccentric old geezer striding out into the daylight again, rolling up his sleeves and getting down to work -- feeding the hungry, healing the sick, scrubbing the environment, giving us an infrastructure that isn't made out of balsa wood and rubber cement. So free Uncle Sam and take my money! I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- to a government...
...American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying burdens of producing food for an exploding human population. The real threat to the carrying capacity of planet Earth, dear Jeremy, comes not from our cattle but from ourselves...