Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ball boys (they're only little kids) for not getting the balls returned quickly enough after the Lions seemed to kick them all to Storrow Drive. He then started screaming at the scorer's table for not stopping the game clock on an injury even though the ref hadn't asked for it to be stopped...
After I went through the list (and I suspect it would be hard to find many undergraduates who disagree with me), I asked my mother for the umpteenth time why I hadn't gone to Stanford. Her response: "Because you wouldn't be as happy there as you are here...
...inner-city high school hadn't been big on organized sports. I don't think it actually had any (though it did offer Latin and Greek). But I loved physical activity, and Harvard offered an undreamed-of variety of channels for it. I sampled as many as I could. I went to boxing and wrestling classes and swam in the Indoor Athletic Building, played intramural football (we had full uniforms and our own coach!), learned to play squash and rowed regularly on the Charles...
Morris urged Clinton to use his Saturday radio address, which has become a kind of toughlove matinee, to come out in favor of the Wisconsin plan before Dole could assail him for opposing it--never mind that Wisconsin hadn't sent in the whole request, and no one had fully reviewed it. In the White House this kind of move has a name: "prebuttal." Because the Wisconsin plan includes substantial spending for child care, health and job training, the White House was able to claim that it is much closer to Clinton's current welfare proposals than to the Republican...
...says, his extended and successful stay at Fidelity had allowed him to spend "good quality time" with his three children. He claims to look back with satisfaction, having met a personal-performance goal by consistently topping the S&P 500 index. "With 20/20 hindsight," he concedes, "I wish I hadn't bought bonds when I did." Sounds just like the rest of us amateurs...