Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were racing at a cadence that was much higher than ours," Allison Pugh said. "The difference was huge. Given those circumstances, a seven-second win was very good...
Carpenter said studying her ancestors, such as two great aunts who were involved in the suffrage movement early this century, had given her insight on politics...
...Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium of rare and extinct plant and animal species...
...Given the probing, contentious nature of scholarly minds, any permanent settlement of these centuries-old issues seems unlikely. Despite the soul searching at Stanford and elsewhere, no reading list is ever going to satisfy everyone. Nor should it. Even friends of Stanford's original 15 readings concede that they constituted a mighty loose little canon -- for example, two pieces by Freud, but no Shakespeare and not a word by any American writer or political philosopher, such as James Madison...
...company that Powers will take over in June is like few others. In an era when most multinational firms have given up their old conglomerating ways, Jardines retains a panoply of seemingly unconnected businesses. With 76,000 employees in 22 countries, the company operates the eighth largest insurance brokerage in the world, a sizable construction firm, an investment bank, and Mandarin Oriental, a leading chain of hotels from San Francisco to Bangkok. Its Hong Kong operations range from the local Mercedes dealership to Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises. But the core of the company's holdings is $3.2 billion worth...