Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much energy (as we will see) into generating this piddling amount? Why are pledges to the Senior Class Gift due before the bursar's card expires? A token show of financial appreciation forges the Crimson bond of the future. A senior who gives on his way out the gate, is more likely than one who does not to feel part of the University and to give to Harvard in the future. It's like voting: those who have done so in the past do so at a higher rate in the future...
...walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White House, where the President worked, trudge on by the front of the mansion and under the North Portico and out the northeast gate. Nice shortcut through pleasant surroundings. Anybody could...
...first light of a chilly dawn, 350 British police and bailiffs converged on the main gate of the Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common. For nearly three years, a ragtag band of women demonstrators had captured headlines round the world by camping just outside the gate to protest the deployment inside of 96 nuclear-tipped, U.S.-made cruise missiles. Now, however, the women were being forced to break camp: 50-odd sleepy inhabitants were given five minutes to vacate their garbage-strewn campsite. As they reluctantly departed-some jeering, some in tears-police demolished the main camp as well...
...Democrats' chances of turning Ronald Reagan out of the White House never looked particularly promising, even when the party seemed unified and Mondale's nomination appeared inevitable. The fact that seven other candidates showed up at the starting gate should have been a tip-off that this would be no live furlong romp. Now that the shine of the Mondale machine has been dulled by Florida sun and New England must and snow, new possibilities seem to be popping up every day. In the most interesting scenario, neither Hart not Mondale is able to nail down enough delegates...
This time the cab gets past the gate, which clicks closed behind us. On the street are two police cars and a group of teen-age girls hanging out, hoping for a glimpse of Michael...