Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important and significant win for women," said Marcia Greenberger, managing attorney of the National Women's Law Center in Washington. "This will make a real difference to women who are trying to rise to the top of their professions." A contrary ruling, said some scholars, would have meant an almost insurmountable burden of proof for many plaintiffs in employment cases...
...choice to matriculate at Harvard meant tennis would not be the top priority in Mulvehal's life, which helps her to dispel any deleterious pressure to succeed on the court...
MANY of us who were children in the early 1970s and whose parents were the least bit hip grew up with the soundtrack to Hair on our turntables. we could sing songs like "Sodomy" long before we knew what the lyrics meant. For kids too young to have experienced the era first-hand, Hair's music linked us to history...
Twenty years ago, a morning on the golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
...course," says Dean Lind, the golf pro who operates the municipal course in Wilmette, Ill. Result: the average time required to play an 18-hole course often shoots up from less than four hours to five hours or more. Other players do not seem to understand that golfing is meant to get them away from the office. "There is nothing as disturbing as hearing a cellular telephone ring right in the middle of your swing," says Steve Lesnik, president of the company that manages the Kemper Lakes club outside Chicago...