Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's selling price is somewhat below the market value, Harrold said. He said that the city considered Emerson as an important part of its urban renewal plan, and that its low price was meant to induce Emerson to relocate there...
Increasingly, often for full academic credit, schools are offering freshman guidance courses. These classes, typically offering suggestions on studying, navigating bureaucracies, and regulating one's lifestyle, are meant to ease the transition from high school to college life...
...people was bound to lift, and I couldn't wait to see Raisa Gorbachev in her new Easter outfit. I settled into my seat with a warm cup of borscht and a copy of Pravda--making a mental note to myself to find out what those damned little squiggles meant. By the time the jet roared off into the deep blue sky I was fast asleep...
...report called into question Reagan's oft-repeated defense that the weapons transactions were meant to foster ties with moderate elements in the Iranian government. While the lawmakers said that the arms deals may have begun as a diplomatic overture, they added that the Administration was motivated primarily by a "deep personal concern on the part of the President for the welfare of U.S. hostages both in the early stages of the initiative and throughout the program." After the report was published, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes admitted that the operation "could be interpreted as a trade of arms...
...Office. I can't take one iota of credit for the standing of Ronald Reagan in the polls. It all happened naturally." That is Speakes' genius. With the aw-shucks cunning of a Mississippi country editor, which he once was, he instantly understood that the modern appetite for news meant that anytime he stepped out into the anarchy of the White House briefing room he could be on the nation's screens; he could get more airtime than any other official, including the President. He curtailed live coverage of his briefings and became more of a background voice than...