Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 to a graduating senior who "during her whole course by her scholarship, conduct, and character has given evidence of the greatest promise," according to the award's charter. The winner receives a LatinDiploma and a stipend of nearly...
...same asgoing along with them. Perhaps the most importantthing I have learned is when and how to shut up.Not every clever or cutting remark needs to gosaid. It's scary when I think of the cruel thingsI have said to people towards whom I felt nomalice. Given the set-up, I could not resist thepunchline...
...mistake to focus on these questions. Dismissing Kennedy's idealism as a vote-getting ploy has given people false confidence in dismissing his message. And so we choose an easy out--taking refuge in our own sophisticated pessimism. But if we follow this path, we condemn ourselves to a world without ideals...
...more endearing to Americans, who have a special affinity for revolutions that involve tax revolts. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65% of Americans said they thought superpower relations were "entering a new era." On American television the dour babushka in the old Wendy's hamburger ads has given way to the svelte Soviet customs agent who shares a Seagram's wine cooler with an American tourist...
...Given the dazzling array of equipment available, some fishermen go overboard. That's My Hon, a 90-ft. fishing palace owned by Ted Sabarese, a New Jersey computer-company executive, is awash with $210,000 worth of angling gadgetry. Its cabin is a war room of screens, gauges and graphs, including three position finders, a satellite navigation system and three depth sounders. Says Dick Greiner, the yacht's skipper: "You're only as good as the equipment...