Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the remarks were made, then it's really a discretionary matter" for the city manager, said Higley, who did not attend the dinner...
When I play tennis with someone better than me, I play a better game. Though some may explain this phenomenon in terms of the large bet I'm usually hustled into, others see it as a matter of rising to the situation. Whether the motivation for rising to expectations is a desire to please or merely an aversion to embarrassment, the situation as it exists at Harvard imposes stifling constraints...
What you do hear is another matter entirely: "You went to Harvard and now you want to do `x'? Are you crazy? Come on, really--which law school are you going to? What? Oh, I get it--okay, which bank are you working at? What...
Tribe said he would not comment on specific deliberations of the committee but added "it's a matter of public record that the President of the University is ultimately interested in looking at every possible option, and that includes people both inside and outside the Law School." The Law School traditionally looks to its own faculty for its dean...
...Salinger cut a tall, dark and disconcerting figure in New York. An editor's wife recalls meeting "Jerry" at a party in 1952: "He came over to me and said that we ought to run away together. I said, 'But I'm pregnant.' And he said, 'That doesn't matter. We can still run away...