Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit was to meant to bring attention to the University's investment policies and conflicts of interest of members of the Corporation--the University's seven-member chief governing board--who sit on the boards of companies with South African interests...
...call! VanDyke and Bell quickly don their raincoats and shoes as Ford takes the message. Turns out to be a false alarm: the student meant to call the car escort. The raincoats and shoes come...
...does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently. An agent's "reflexive reliance" on a profile, he wrote, is likely to subject "innocent individuals to unwarranted police harassment." Drug-enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service, insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure...
...first few lines of the Currier House Drama Society's production of The Importance of Being Earnest are truly horrifying. As Lane (Todd Brun) and Algernon (John Goldstone) begin to converse in what are meant to be highly mannered British accents, insidious comparisons immediately flood the viewer's mind--specifically, endless repetitions of Monty Python, or, perhaps, that particularly ill-starred high-school rendition of My Fair Lady...
...local and national media did not ignore this--focusing intense scrutiny on the lives of Harvard hockey players outside of the sport and what the "Harvard experience" has meant to them and their families...