Word: means
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where there is evidence is there history, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian tells us. Thus it follows that if there is no evidence, there is no history. How many African tribes kept records at City Hall? Or better yet, how many American Indians kept council meeting notes? Does this mean that black and native Americans have no history? Is that why schoolchildren are repeatedly told Columbus discovered America when native Americans were here first...
...This does not mean, however, that disabled applicants should not meet the same qualifications as other students," he added...
...time that everybody involved--the community, the DEQE and MATEP--find out just what the power plant's impact on the community will be. All the computer-generated studies in the world mean nothing; the plant must be tested under actual operating conditions. DEQE Deputy Commissioner David Fierra, who will make the final decision on the plant, must stop finding excuses to delay his decision and give MATEP the go-ahead...
There is something inherently suspect about institutionalizing something as spontaneous as humor, and something even obscene in making it a sullen competition for yuks, as the Lampoon has done. The resultant brand of humor, inevitably perhaps, irritates--no, it offends. And by this I don't mean to carp on racism and sexism, although I think these elements are well in evidence in On the Lam. Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself...
Even with the son of former Buffalo Bills' quarterback Jack Kemp and the son of Miami Dolphin mentor Don Shula, defending Ivy champion Dartmouth cannot score. The Big Green's offense resembles the offense of the N.Y. Giants, further evidence that quantitative nicknames mean nothing...