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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said a friend, who pointed to a dictionary definition. The American Heritage Dictionary defines hopefully as "1. In a hopeful manner. 2. It is to be hoped." The entry even offers direction for usage: "The use of hopefully to mean it is to be hoped, as in hopefully we'll get there before dark is grammatically justified by analogy to similar uses of happily and mercifully...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Avoiding Bugbears, Hopefully | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Last weekend at Bright Center, another friend said, "I think that if Harvard wins the title next weekend, it will be our first team little since...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: An Urban Legend | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...Well, at Middlebury, things aren't so bad," said my friend Mike. "I mean, my 6 foot by 8 foot double is a little bit small, but my roommate and I are building a set of lofts so that we can take our desks out of the hallway and put them in the room...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Down and Out in Cambridge | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...know, the food at the Washington University cafeteria is pretty bad," said my friend Jeff. "The mystery meat is usually ok, but we seem to have fish about four times a week. Good thing we can't have seconds, or we'd all get sick...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Down and Out in Cambridge | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett and another friend, Michael Jesselson, whose father Ludwig Jesselson is the founder of Philip Bros., the U.S. commodity-trading house. So far, neither American has been charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Insider: Scandal Travels Abroad | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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