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Word: fittingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the perfection she is pursuing is so out of reach of anyone without a staff, or who sleeps more than Martha's four hours a night, that there is no obligation to actually do it. Being in Martha's thrall is like buying a treadmill and instantly feeling fit even though it serves mainly as a coat rack; acquiring the Martha oeuvre makes you think you will conduct a beautiful domestic symphony one of these days--when the kids grow up, when you lose your day job and perhaps the lunkhead you've married who likes meat loaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...problem with the first argument is that the fit between costs and aid is not close enough. In most states the cost of education is controlled by one bureaucracy and the dispensing of financial aid by another; increases in aid almost always lag behind increases in costs. Moreover, the parents of students who use state universities as a gateway into the middle class are often unfamiliar with the process of putting together a financing mechanism. Also, some state-university systems have responded to budget cuts by simply reducing their student body. In 1992 and '93, to cite the most notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WITH COLLEGE FOR ALL | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

They have only one hurdle to jump: planning the family schedule to fit in both commencement ceremonies...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: Father, Son Graduate Together | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...vision for the University and how minorities fit in," Gates says. "He gets them excited about being part of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRST 5 YEARS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...that first year, my T-shirts barely fit in the drawer...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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