Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waggers' list of objections reads like a ludicrous laundry list. The governor is this, the governor isn't that, all thrown against the backdrop of the suggestion of impropriety by the committee chairman. Their charges against the student are unsupported by any facts and use circumstantial evidence to condemn him for commiting the apparently heinous crime of supporting Dukakis for governor (as The Crimson and almost everybody outside of the John Birch Society did) and then using his connection to try to get that prominent American to favor the senior class with an address in June...
...friend of a friend who is a philosophy at the University of West Virginia says no. There's no life after college. There isn't even any life during college...
...made a fair-size bundle in the oil business, but aerobic spending and the collapse of crude prices have left him ear-deep in debt, and sinking. He doesn't much care. He and his wife Karla are both good-looking and healthy in their 40s, but he isn't aroused by her, even to sexual antagonism. Their recent marital enterprise has been what economists call, approvingly, consumer activity: building a mansion that Duane hates, filling it with trendy furniture and appliances, and one day, more than usually bored, buying the damn doghouse, a two-story log affair built...
...told Hagler, "You're still champion." Hagler thought he heard, "You beat me, man." Having first blurted, "Twelve rounds isn't a championship distance," Manager Pat Petronelli was unconvincing in the next instant when he claimed that his man won them anyway. "Sugar Ray Leonard," the ex-champ said miserably, "of all people." To himself as much as anyone else, Leonard exulted, "I saw every punch coming," and no one should expect him to quit now. Maybe he will next try the light-heavyweight champion, his old friend Hearns. In a way, Leonard has beaten a heavyweight already. He knocked...
...have just opened their season, but this fan isn't interested. He would rather figure out Lane MacDonald's goals-per game average while on the road in cities west of Cambridge but east of Detroit...