Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although most acknowledge that tutors are somewhat accessible as social shoulders to lean on their suit ability as intellectual advisors is being called into question...
Harvard's budget is relatively lean, but the University has mandated that all Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments cut their budgets by 4 percent, according to Francis Toland, assistant athletic director and business manager. Toland says his department is meeting those demands...
...Nicole Kidman? "I worry whether it will have any male appeal," says film analyst Grove of the 70-mm, $70 million drama. "That could be a very big, expensive problem." The movie, set in Ireland and the U.S. in the late 19th century, means to have a David Lean sweep. But the one epic Lean filmed in Ireland was Ryan's Daughter -- Erin go flop...
...continue with the case, and take more days off from work, and pay more court fees, and spend more days waiting in the dimly lit back of the courtroom. Or he can pay the fines, do the community service, enroll in the treatment programs, meet the probation officer to lean what a suspended jail term means, and end the case. The unknown is less comfortable than the known, and most defendants choose the latter...
Furthermore, Washington should lean on its allies to do the same. But the federal government is only a part of the story. States and municipalities who have passed their own sanctions against South Africa should annul these as well. And government officials and activists alike should encourage American businesses which divested in the 1980s to go back to South Africa and set up shop again...