Word: means
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This will mean not having to have long drawn-out negotiations around patronage jobs," CCA executive director Lin Sasman said last night. "In the past members have had to bargain and trade off patronage jobs for support on issues," she added...
Fifteen passengers and two crew members survived. Passenger Dwane Canaga, a building contractor from Stockton, Calif., recalled that just before the crash, "the captain came on with the usual speech. Ten seconds later, we had this mean bump, and I said to myself, 'That's probably the worst landing I've ever had." Then all hell broke loose...
When Jimmy Carter said a trillion, did he really mean to say a hundred billion or so? And did he threaten the oil companies earlier with "punitive" legislation when he actually only had an "unfriendly" law or two in mind? These were some of the weighty issues that preoccupied the policymakers on the energy front last week, as attention continued to be focused on Big Oil's current gusher of profits...
...that matter, Hagman does everything just right, and the chief joy of Dallas is watching him play an overstuffed lago in a stetson hat. Mean? There ain't nobody meaner than this dude. But Hagman plays him with such obvious zest and charm that he is impossible to dislike. Why was lago so evil? Hagman knows: it's fun being bad. And that is the secret the creators of Dallas have discovered too. Audiences applaud the good guys, but they watch the bad ones, hour after hour after hour. -Gerald Clarke
Wrong. John Updike, self-appointed myth-maker of the New York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...