Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tonight marks the beginning of the 42nd edition of the latter of these major national occasions, the college hockey tournament held at the Boston Gardern involving four Boston-area schools: Harvard, Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern University...
...Cosmo--a magazinewhich depicts women as shiny, frisky boy toys--ismore popular than even People, which comes in aclose second. Meanwhile, Ms., the feministmonthly, boasts a scant 3 checks. On anotherfront, it looks as if Mather's age-old war betweenburly athletes and computer hackers is being wonby the latter. MacUser--which depicts computers asshiny, frisky boy toys--has been checked twice asmany times as Sports Illustrated, a perennial jockfavorite...
...amount of money. The quake closed down 150 public schools, and there are worries about insurance coverage. It is a fact that 60% of the city's homeowners did not carry any. California Governor Pete Wilson has sent Clinton his estimated bill: between $15 billion and $30 billion. The latter amount would tie the quake with Hurricane Andrew as the most expensive disaster in American history. Wilson asked Clinton to pick up the entire tab, waiving laws requiring that state and local governments chip in as well...
...working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified. Jesus -- a peasant nobody -- was never buried, never taken by his friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals' bodies: it was probably barely covered with dirt, vulnerable to the wild dogs that roamed the wasteland of the execution grounds...