Word: getting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost touch with my summer school friends now, and my course grades were so bad that I never bothered to fill out the form to get Real Harvard credit for them. But my summer at Harvard was still definitely worth...
...Hawaii last December, watching basketball games and getting paid to be there while it's zero degrees back in Boston," continues Veneziano, referring to his trip with the Boston University men's basketball team to the Rainbow Classic. "I grin whenever I think of that. Obviously, there's a lot of hard work, but I love the opportunity to travel and see parts of the country you don't normally get...
...result is that the Alumni Association will nominate only those alumni who fully support the University's policies. And those nominees, benefitting from a glowing Alumni Association endorsement and a prime spot on the ballot, will be able to get more votes than "unofficial" candidates, no matter how qualified either might...
...badges for the good life. Perhaps the passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make decisions about people's lives. What's the power here, except the power to help...
...them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable just a few weeks ago. But if China's leaders can get away with rewriting so recent a past, what is to stop them from scripting any future they choose...