Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown had instant name recognition, but also voters liked his support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...
...most noteworthy newcomer to the Crimson was freshman phenom Dora Gyorffy, whose gravity-defying ability helped her dominate the high jump event throughout the year. A national champion in her native Hungary, Gyorffy made an instant splash on American soil...
Lauralee Summer '98 never had many toys. But the girl who moved 20 times before her mid-teens did have a lot of cardboard boxes, which she flipped over, creating an instant set of "desks" for her own small school...
...when I visited the United States on an official visit. I'm not a good telephone person or a letter person. But when I meet one of my friends from those undergraduate days, the years just seem to evaporate like we were meeting after one day. There's an instant rapport, an instant feeling of communication so I think that the bonds that are forged when one is an undergraduate are bonds that last a lifetime...
...course in geography. I had been warned that Mr. Kemp, the instructor, was a rabid misogynist, but I couldn't believe that a university as prestigious as Harvard would tolerate such a thing. So two of my friends and I signed up for the course. Mr. Kemp took an instant and immediate dislike to my two friends. He would call them "sister," openly disparage what they said in class, and gave one of them a D. Knowing of Mr. Kemp's reputation, the Radcliffe dean allowed my friend to take a fifth course the following term to make...