Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to express coming from a lower economic background because people tend to feel sorry for you," says Craig, who concentrates in history and sociology. "No one wants to evoke pity. It's easy to say you're different, but it's hard...
...publication of hospital-specific mortality rates has provoked both interest and alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...
...want to express our support for students to protest peaceable," said Adam Sabra '90, one of six freshmen organizers. "We don't feel people know these things are going...
Asked if the communications director had been asked to "tone down" his remarks, Speakes said, "I haven't heard the president express his views... the president knows Pat as a man of conviction and that Pat's only motive here is to encourage people to speak up for the president...
...perhaps, Reagan stubbornly refuses to admit he made any mistakes. Yes, he concedes, the diversion of funds to the contras was "improper" -- but then he did not know about it. He fails to see he should have made it clear that he would not tolerate any flouting of the express will of Congress. And as for secretly slipping arms to Iran -- well, he did it for the worthy motives of restoring American influence in a strategically vital nation and securing the release of hostages. "I think we took the only action we could have in Iran," he said...