Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberal agenda has now been recognized as misguided because it did not address the fact that a sizable segment of the homeless population suffers from numerous barriers to employment and stability: substance abuse, little or no formal education or work experience and a history of incarceration. Today there is widespread acceptance of the idea that truly assisting the homeless means helping them address these problems and preparing them for employment and self-sufficiency. GEORGE MCDONALD, PRESIDENT Doe Fund, Inc. New York City...
...time. They considered busing in peers from a nearby all-women's college to host a party for the two schools (motion denied by the female contingency at the meeting). Other Houses think locally and host multi-House events; Leverett, Dunster and Lowell join in an annual Tri-House Formal. And then there are those committees that would keep their resident blood pure by taking pains to restrict attendance to House members. Leverett HoCo treasurer Matthew T. Feng '01 bitterly recalls when word leaked of their upcoming Taco Bell study break, "Miscellaneous athletes with athletic appetites and teammates in tote...
...Singaporean/Malaysian salad 110 minutes / George Clooney's stint on ER 2,365,920 minutes / Cassat at the MFA for another 105,120 minutes / Gene Siskel's television career lasted 13,140,000 minutes / Time since last execution in Massachusetts 27,331,200 minutes / Average trolley ride to freshman formal 17 minutes / new Pudding show has been performed for 840 minutes / Girl Scout cookies can be delivered in 25,920 minutes / For an hour's worth of minimum wage ($5.25), a sweatshop worker must work 456.5 minutes / Grendel's expected to reopen in 139,680 minutes / Model Congress lasted...
...formal ruling on the Bunting's compliancewith Title IX could come only if an aggrievedparty decided to actually file a complaint withthe federal government...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses." I submit that our Congress needs to reach higher to have a beneficial influence on our society and that it has so far been paralyzed by ignoble impulses. COREY BRUNISH Lake Oswego...