Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That debacle, which took place when all but a handful of us were still in high school, was also the last occasion when a school beat Harvard in football two years in a row.
Apart from deregulation, the other differences between the Senate and House treatment of Carter's energy package point toward the likelihood that a handful of Senate and House conferees will determine the ultimate outcome. Responding to Speaker Tip O'Neill's expert prodding, the House had passed...
Arbitrage until a few weeks ago was only a somewhat mysterious word to the average investor. Then it became known that a handful of Wall Street arbitragers who like to speculate on corporate takeovers were the big winners in a bidding war for Babcock & Wilcox Co. (TIME, Sept. 5). As...
Since Waugh's own death, his reputation has been skillfully embalmed by the Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful...
NOW TO REVIEW WHAT affirmative action was intended to, and should, mean. Perhaps the most helpful explanation of its purpose is what can be called the "overcoming-discouragement" premise. This is based on the understanding that systematic discrimination against minorities in America's institutions of higher learning until the recent...