Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it is not at all obvious that Jiang will ever demonstrate that he has the wisdom and strength to govern China under current conditions. The Communist Party has lost much of its authority among the people, who are convinced, as Deng told them, that "to get rich is glorious." Yet the economy is uneven. It registered 11.8% real growth last year, but the inflation rate peaked above 25%, and more than 40 million people are unemployed, while 100 million others are underemployed. The Chinese feel alienated from the government because of pervasive official corruption and memories...
BASEBALL GOT WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough...
Council members: build on the U.C.'s core strengths. Trumpet the council's small, less glorious competencies--like airport shuttle bus services, concentration fairs and consensual statements on noncontroversial issues such as cuts in student funding--as indicative of its ability to represent the concrete and substantive issues that concern students, no matter how small they might seem at first. Buttress these strengths by consciously taking measures to mend the atrocious reputation of the council: Start campaigns to increase voter turnout for council elections, continue to increase student involvement in local politics with voter registration drives, educate students...
...inspiring Memorial Church, the world-renowned Widener Library, the glorious Sanders Theater, the magnificent domes of Eliot House and Lowell and the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC)... Can somebody tell me which one of these things is not like the others...
...ventilation will undoubtedly be a problem when an exercise room is located underground and is barely able to grasp air through its barred windows leading to the glorious outdoors. It sounds like a prison, but really it's great. Where else can you sample a bit of body odor from each of your schoolmates...