Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse...
Financial issues also figured prominently in candidates' speeches last night.
But these fields seem to constitute a random sampling of careers that Harvard undergraduates may or may not be interested in. One cannot say with a straight face that the number of pre-law students at Harvard merits only one law firm at the annual career fair. And what of...
"We figured, as officers, what would be doable for us is no more than $100 dollars. A lot of the guys can't afford to pay more than $100, so we told them that we would be okay raising dues to 100, but no more," Sprinkle said.
We know why they're saying so little of value, of course. They can't quite figure the political benefits of saying more. "There's lots of talk about how this helps Republicans," says a Dole campaign aide. "Some say it'll work for us by osmosis. Some are talking...