Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear that [this election] hasn't been well publicized," Hulse said. "Students are not well aware of the candidates. Because of this, I think the endorsements are going to matter...
Kamil E. Redmond '00 can take attendance and flip burgers with the best of them. But Redmond has shown a passionate commitment to the larger issues that matter--faculty diversity, advising and gender equality foremost among them...
...means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American culture for that matter, than any other marginalized group in American society. In fact, what is interesting about "white trash" is not their relationship to the imagined concept of a white culture, but that even in their impoverished and often uneducated marginality, they retain a privilege in American society: their whiteness...
...pediatrician with a direct, matter-of-fact manner, Ruth and her lanky husband Mike had abandoned Spokane, Wash., six months before and settled in the exclusive Cincinnati suburb of Beckett Ridge. A pilot at Airborne, Mike had been commuting by plane to Wilmington for his seven-day work stints, but a terrifying incident had taken place at the Spokane military hospital where Ruth was working: a gunman rampaged through the place, killing five and wounding 23. "I was in Wilmington when it happened," says Mike, 39. "And I said, 'Enough.'" Beckett Ridge was safer, but to Ruth, 35, the place...
...tightening of further sanctions," Cohen said. He called military action "a last option," but if it is needed, "you can be reasonably assured it will not be a pinprick." "No more pinpricks," echoed Marine General Anthony Zinni, who heads the U.S. Central Command in the gulf. The things that matter most to Saddam, Zinni suggested, are his Republican Guard forces and his command and control systems. During recent talks with leaders in the region, he said, they told him to "go after the things that matter most, the things that keep him in power...