Word: late
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and my boss wants me to go to work extra hours this week...
Yale increased its lead to 24-12 late in the third quarter after Kelher's 45-yd. pass to Jim Groffen set up a 2-yd. touchdown run by Kevin Callahan...
Such a tax system has two features. First, rates as low as possible. At this late date in the supply-side revolution, you don't need any more sermons about the evil effects of high tax rates. But there is a second, equally important feature. Tax rates should be the same on alternative forms of economic activity. If plumbers are taxed more than electricians, there will be fewer plumbers and more electricians than the free market would dictate. If a tax break goes to timber but not to steel, investment flows out of the steel industry and into the timber...
Maya Lin was living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet...
Wolves roam through our racial memory, howling beyond the firelight, scaring the hell out of us. But they no longer roam in Yellowstone National Park, except as rare transients, prowling south from Canada. The last resident wolves in the big park were exterminated by Government hunters by the late 1920s. That was a time when animals were thought to be good (elk and bison, for instance) or bad. Wolves had been pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking...