Word: fit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...with disabilities. "In 1971 I was in a women's bookstore and just happened to pick up the book 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' [by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective]." The book discusses women's sexual politics and roles. "I realized that with my disability I just didn't fit into that book. I knew that the clear goal that loomed before me was to define feminism in terms that women with disabilities could relate...
...argue by saying that athletic skill is no different in the admission process from a special aptitude for writing or music. But Harvard is an academic institution, and people's skills ought to fit within that intellectual mission. If a student talented enough to come here happens to be an athlete also, fine. But athletes without scholarly abilities add nothing to Harvard's intellectual community and deny a coveted space in the student body to someone who could make better...
...works can fit any format: modern comedy (Bill Murray in Scrooged), musical cartoon (the Disney gang' s Oliver & Company) or period piece (Christine Edzard' s daunting six hours of Little Dorrit...
Counting the number of angels that fit on the head of a pin may be an appropriate part of your mission in the ivory tower, but here in the office we want to count the increase in our paychecks. We work hard at our jobs and we deserve to be compensated fairly. We deal with reality every day, not abstractions. We are the secretaries, the data entry operators, the accounting assistants, library workers and the technical support staff that carry out the daily mission of the University...