Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the serious subject matter, the speakers tried to keep things light with humorous stories of their treatments. Muxie spoke about wearing a wig during her chemotherapy...
...like machine in the face of a technophobic electorate; not our Al. He?s happy to tell us about the morally dubious purpose for which Pacific Blue was built -? that is, to simulate nuclear explosions and keep America?s stockpile of nukes in tip-top working order. No matter that struggling third-world superpowers like India want such virtual atom blasts included in the international test-ban treaty. The veep is more interested in the computer?s other potential uses -? like predicting climate change. So how about a Gore-Pacific Blue ticket...
...matter that Cunningham has become twice the quarterback as a pocket passer than he was in his salad days in Philadelphia. No matter that Flutie sells tickets and cereal, has won three straight and added off-beat magic to a traditional game...
After they set it up, students can access shuttleboy in a matter of seconds at any computer terminal from which they can access their FAS account...
...main issue here is attitude. The Harvard administration has a bad one where its undergraduates are concerned--because it can. Students will never stop wanting to come here no matter how poorly the College treats its students. And things aren't that bad anyway, right? To some degree, yes. Things are pretty good for most and excellent for some. But for an equal number, the cracks are large enough to fall through and the education they receive is not worth $130,000. (The diploma might be, but that's another article...