Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event, it did not take me very much time to recognize that Harvard students were quite fond of extracurricular activities and almost equally as fond of corresponding titles that go with them. Thus, as Ec 10 would have taught me if I had ever decided to take it, this great demand must result in a very high cost. The marketplace would accomodate this demand by raising prices, for example, but Harvard has a far more exacting scheme: to wit, the comp...
...more likely consequence is that the P.R.I., faced with the prospect of social instability, would abandon current economic reforms for quick-fix policies that would mollify the masses. As Mexicans are fond of pointing out, their country has a long tradition of avoiding seemingly inevitable political upheaval. "The P.R.I. has an almost magical power to redirect itself to reflect the needs of the country," says a Mexican official. "And so we have the young technocrats running things. But if they should fail, then look for a wave of populism." If that happens, Salinas could easily turn against Washington...
Japan, once the world's enemy, now its envy. A ruler once a god, in fact a slight, shy man fond of jellyfish but devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century...
...Michael S. Dukakis, who is fond of referring to Massachusetts as "the nation's preeminent education state," may find his education agenda a tough sell with fiscal critics this year, State House insiders said yesterday...
Former City Manager James L. Sullivan is fond of saying that, in Cambridge, there are 15 sides to every issue--with a community group to represent each...