Word: lend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to call any one football player the best ever. The nature of the game does not lend itself to that sort of generalization. Montana may be the best quarterback ever. Marino is certainly one of the best drop back passers the game has ever seen. But can it be argued that those men are better than the great defensive players of the sport, like Taylor, or Dick Butkus? The offensive and defensive games can't be properly compared. So how about Major League Baseball? Right now, there is a slew of young talent. Barry Bonds, Frank Thomas, Roberto Alomar...
...ostensible purpose of generating debate--and then failing to contribute to the debate in any meaningful way by demonstrating the reasoning behind his remarks. This was true of his allegation last year that affirmative action caused grade inflation (a claim he framed in a way that seemed intentionally to lend itself to misinterpretation), as well as his attacks on women in an interview last spring...
...looming presence. Often the viewer feels a sort of detached sadness constructed by the camera's eye. The montage of images follows the characters' soul-searching hauntingly. Fellini alternates this scrutinizing view of humanity with wide-angle sweeps of the Italian landscape. Windswept clouds and field lend a barren quality to the story's background. The effects are mesmerizing...
Ford suggests a set of Faculty "Friends ofExpos" beyond the standing committee, which wouldbring the methodologies of different disciplinesto bear on the program's needs. These professorswould care about Expos, and would lend theirexpertise to the program--as well as incorporatethe program's methods into their own classwork...
...live there are concerned. The region is an exciting, growing place with an intricate and diverse, if sometimes tense, cultural make-up. And when a hurricane is on the way, South Florida thrives on its fear. For the most part, the fear of the hurricane leads a neighbor to lend a helping hand, or comforting words. It may even give fear brokers a much-needed education in social justice, as they scurry for supplies at the hardware store and their business collapse under fierce winds...