Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that the shuttle system isn't perfect; almost everyone has experienced the frustration that comes when a bus isn't somewhere that it should be. But it's also true that the shuttle system is greatly improved over last year, and that, more importantly, potential for further improvement exists...
Still, Harvard isn't exactly languishing in the sunshine. And the Crimson doesn't want a dent in its undefeated record, especially not a Big Green one. Harvard also hopes that having the home-field advantage for the first time in three years against Dartmouth will be critical for a victory...
...measure, sociologists disagree about just how much of it has disappeared. But they do agree that people feel more harried by their life-styles. "People's schedules are more ambitious," says John Robinson, who heads up the Americans' Use of Time project at the University of Maryland. "There just isn't enough time to fit in all the things one feels have to be done...
...this business, you know what I mean?" The stare is direct. "That's one reason I'm getting out, because I've got my kids, and I think about things and don't react the way I used to, and that isn't good in this business. When you're doing it big, you've got to act crazy. A guy is not going to pay you if he don't think you're the kind of guy going to come and stick a gun in his head and say, 'Hey, mother, I'm going to kill you right...
Declaring that "goodwill isn't worth doodly-doo," Metzenbaum insisted that S&Ls have at least 1.5 percent in "tangible capital"--cash, stocks and property that could easily be converted to cash and could be seized, in the event of a failure, before turning to government deposit insurance funds...