Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of my Harvard life has been tied to andshaped by my first year, though I tried hard tobelieve that it meant nothing...
Harvard, of course, meant hard work--sometimesan overwhelming amount of it. But I didn't wantHarvard to be just tests and papers and the questfor good grades...
Haiti, Wilentz writes, is a land where "misery walked around the place like a live being." For the country's poor, Duvalier's end meant not liberty but new masters: generals who promised elections that were scarred by terror, intimidation and fraud...
...complex of shops and restaurants where warehouses once stood, Underground Atlanta was meant to be a symbol of the city's new vibrancy when it opened in 1969. Instead, it became a study in urban failure: thieves and rowdy teenagers patrolled abandoned storefronts as shoppers fled to the suburbs. The place was shuttered...
...thunderstorm last week to celebrate the reopening of Underground after a 2 1/2-year renovation that cost $142 million, including $85 million in city-backed bonds. The complex, decorated in turn-of-the-century style, will eventually boast 140 stores, restaurants and nightclubs -- as well as dozens of security guards meant to reassure the suburbanites and tourists who are essential to the downtown's revitalization. Critics charge that the city's money could be better spent elsewhere. Protesters disrupted Mayor Andrew Young's opening address by chanting "Atlanta keeps the homeless underground." But if the project succeeds, it will create...