Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...followed by the principal perpetrators of our class: a brilliant medical researcher, not surprisingly several professors of English--and as for the most creative and irreverent participant, he has served with great distinction on the Harvard faculty. I shall refrain from according this college roommate direct and deserving recognition, lest his tenure be in jeopardy by Cromwellian forces in University...
...Lest you think the game was a one-woman show, understand that the entire offense also turned it one of its finest efforts of the year to down the Ithacans. Granted, the Big Red isn't about to dazzle the field hockey world any time soon, but few teams could have stopped the impressive play of Clifton, Bambi Taylor and Andy Mainelli...
...Medicare laws, hospitals would be reimbursed the same amount for both patients. Categorizing each patient into a single DRG may also present problems. Patients over 75, points out Gerontologist Laurence Rubenstein of U.C.L.A., "have an average of eight to ten chronic health problems." Rubenstein and others also worry lest patients be sent home prematurely, only to return under another DRG. This, he says, would cost the Government more than if patients had been thoroughly cared for during their initial stay...
Carrillo might have helped these things along, but the screenwriters follow the "women should be seen and not heard" school of filmmaking. Perhaps she was hushed up lest her authentic accent draw attention to Gere's flat American tones, made all the more irritating by his self-consciously correct pronunciation throughout of the word "Paraguay...
...international law, conventional morality, democracy and so on. Most important among these interests is that American banks and businesses be allowed to enjoy the "favorable economic climate" of U.S.-backed dictatorships, which keep wages and taxes low while providing cheap natural resources. Meanwhile the U.S. must constantly take care lest revolutionaries--fed up with the poverty, illiteracy and political terrorism under U.S.-sponsored military governments--lure these countries out of the Free World...