Word: meant
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Leaders of the front knew all too well what had happened. Said Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 57, the Liberals' candidate for President next May: "The traditional parties have lost contact with a certain sector of the population." He meant the thousands of excampesinos who squat in squalid shacks surrounding Bogota and Cartagena and have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar...
Something, in the CRIMSON for Wednesday, March 23, 1966, is referred to as "Cavell's freshman seminar." What is meant, presumably, is the freshman seminar now being offered by Mr. Robert Gardner and myself. If your reporter had interviewed Mr. Gardner, as I urged him to do (instead, for example, of making me say that Dartmouth has "taken the lead among Eastern schools in the accumulation of films and even film scripts," which I said I did not know to be true, mentioning Dartmouth as the one place other than Harvard whose efforts in this direction I did know something...
...offer their know-how and equipment to help Russia develop Siberia's great resources-at a profit, of course. The Soviets have sometimes seemed to encourage the Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals, all waiting to be tapped." He invited the Japanese...
...section men and submitted their budget requests for next year. The Committee has had to try to find personnel to staff new Gen Ed courses at a time when nearly everyone was already assigned to departmental courses. Wilcox would have liked to begin earlier, but the lengthy Faculty debate meant the Committee could not meet until two months...
Lithgow has been content to make a mere fairy tale out of what may have been meant with more seriousness. But if it has none of the pretensions of Trouble in Tahiti, Histoire du Soldat is warm, charming theatre...