Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hashimoto's words had the desired effect: Trading in Tokyo ended on a yen surge against the dollar and a 200-point boost in the Nikkei index. But was this just electioneering -- Hashimoto made the crowd-pleasing comments at a campaign rally. The July 12 parliamentary election will be a referendum on how Hashimoto performed during this crisis. Unless his Liberal Democratic Party thrives in the election, Hashimoto's promises could turn out to be empty...
...accordance with Massachusetts open records laws, the log, or blotter, must list all incidents requiring police attention in chronological order, labeling each incident with an index number. But one index number was missing at the time of both the call and the arrest, suggesting that reports of the incidents had been omitted...
...stored in a hidden space in my desk drawer, others I stuffed in folders and lost at the bottom of my knapsack. At the end of each year, I collect the words of wisdom jotted down on scraps of paper and in notebooks and record them onto more permanent index cards...
...stumbled upon these quotes unaware the other day. I was cleaning out my desk drawer and found the index cards filled with words. The power of Fitzgerald jumped out at me again, differently this time. Never had I so fully identified with his lost generation, called by the tolling of bells as my class will be as we commence, palpably surrounded by the spirit of the past and of Harvard tradition, even as we take our leave of this home. I have learned the old creeds alongside the new, and together they make for a difficult lesson. We are taught...
...their core, these are conflicting messages: we are a generation simultaneously burdened and enlivened by history, by questioning, by the real fight. And then I turn over the final index cards. There are two: "One person can never find complete fullness in himself [or herself] alone," writes Mikhail Bakhtin. It is in relationships that fullness occurs, in the relationships we create and that create us. And with Annie Dillard I rejoice: "Life gets your blood going, and it smells good." At the threshold of change, with the nuances and relationships of four years piled high around us, we're filled...