Word: magna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things I fought for are now considered quaint," complains Erica Jong, a best-selling feminist novelist. "We've won the right to be exhausted, to work a 30-hour day. Younger women say, 'Who wants that?' They say, 'We don't need feminism anymore.' They don't understand graduating magna cum laude from Harvard and then being told to go to the typing pool...
...during the demolition of 326 missiles, and Americans have witnessed the destruction of 1,088 Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington arms-control expert, talks of "a degree of verification unthinkable just a couple of years...
...ability to tackle many tasks successfuly becomes clear in light of his academic success. He recently earned a magna-plus on his thesis and plans to attend the University of Chicago Law School next year...
...members of the administration. It was they, after all, who sent each of us not just an acceptance letter, but our very own Certificate of Admission, remember? Indeed, it is the rare student among us who has not proudly framed this revered document, and just as proudly displayed it, Magna-Carta style, in the most conspicuous location possible. Certainly, it is the sort of thing that would surely have proved impressive on a date, if indeed such a concept existed at Harvard...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...