Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wounded. Since the violence started on Dec. 8, hundreds have been arrested and detained. Denounced by the U.S. and other allies as excessive, the military crackdown has prompted soul searching at home as well as bitterness against outside criticism. Editorialized the daily newspaper Ma'ariv: "Israeli society is not meant to withstand bloodshed of this kind as the price of our presence in the territories...
Previously, only members of the same sex served together. But the small number of female officers meant there were relatively few all-women teams. This led to scheduling problems as well as resentment among the men, who served many more shifts. The change, says Major Suzanne Randle of the Strategic Air Command in Omaha, "simply reflects an evolution of existing policy...
...experts were unsure what he meant but offered several possible explanations: that the Soviets were working on their own defensive system (a fact that Gorbachev seemed to concede in his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw two weeks ago); that they might consider breaking the moratorium on antisatellite systems, which could cripple space-based SDI components; or that they might resort to abrogating existing treaties and rebuilding their nuclear arsenals...
...snowflakes that fell ever so gently this afternoon naturally got me to thinking: what has Harvard meant to me? One of the things it means to me is walking around the Square or the Yard this time of year, with the wind nipping at my neck, the weather cold but not too cold, the air filled with anticipation of the holidays and the New Year. People really do seem nicer this time of year, I think. Then I notice that the guy outside the Coop collecting Christmas money ostensibly for the Salvation Army looks remarkably like the wheelchair basketball...
...offering a Tevye-like "I don't know." I don't know how different I am than when I was 17 and can't imagine being different when I'm 47 or 57. With cybernetics being what it is, I might have the chance not to know what Harvard meant to me when...