Word: meant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hasn't got a majority behind him. Just before Teng Hsiao-p'ing's visit, the CBS News-New York Times poll telephoned 1,500 American homes and asked, "Do you think Jimmy Carter should have pushed for closer ties with Communist China even though that meant breaking off relations with the Chinese Nationalists on Taiwan?" With the question put that way, only 32% said yes, another 22% had no opinion and 46% disapproved. Is this America speaking...
...exactly the Triple Crown. But for the winning jockey it meant deliverance. When he climbed aboard Father Duffy last Thursday, Boy Wonder Steve Cauthen, 18, winner of the Triple Crown and just under $5 million last year, had not won a race since New Year's Day. His losing streak of 110 straight races, one of the worst ever for a major jockey, was a stupefying slump for The Kid who once won 23 of 54 races in a single week...
...tried to cut himself off from what had been. He took on new languages (French, then English) the way others don disguises. He made himself an outcast well before the age of alienation. But the decision in his mid-30s to settle in England and become a writer meant an end to running. Countless thousands of miles had carried him smack into the past...
Both Lucero and Berenson said the posters were meant to be taken in a light-hearted vein...
...fact, its distinction between "action" and "information" resolutions suggests that it never plans to do anything. However, one would think that the idea of shareholder responsibility meant asking a company to stop doing something that one doesn't like or asking it to do something that one thinks it should do. But the ACSR isn't about to shoot off a rocket. Imagine, the ACSR turns out to be a group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that...