Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started using a modified version of the USFL timeout patterns, but stopped after the games dragged--I mean dragged in the first three weeks of the 1985 season...
...some captains, that may mean scoring a lot of goals. Scott Fusco, the 1985-'86 Harvard hockey captain, finished his career as the Crimson's all-time leading scorer. Kelly McBride, last year's lacrosse captain, accumluated goals the way the U.S. accumlates foreign trade debts...
Pulier is right: that Reading Period now exists for students is a myth, and it would be good to see this time period better protected from encroaching classes and special additional assignments. But because the current calendar is so great for the faculty, it is never, I mean never, going to change. Mark P. Hanson...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...House should vote to extend Contra aid and the Senate should follow suit the next day, Hamilton said, "the effect would be a continuation of the war and an escalation of the war, with results we could neither predict nor control. It would also mean the...peace process would come to a halt...