Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that even this melodramatic treatment works in the context of the album's Christmas spirit and sense of current pop history. Just as Perry Como's Christmas LPs please our parents, and Phil Spector and Motown Christmas records serve the baby boomers, A Very Special Christmas is meant for us, capturing the true pop sounds and commercial spirit of a today--for a good cause...
...Foreigner's farcical elements. Most of the play's humor comes either from the situation, as Charlie relishes his new persona more and more, or from Shue's witty dialogue. Catherine, feeling guilty because she thinks she is less upright than her fiance, complains, "Some people are just meant to be a waste of food, and I think I'm one of them...
Tandler said the two mortgage plans were meant"to provide incentives to certain senior facultypersonnel," and that the programs, which are stilltechnically in effect, "are only available totenured senior faculty with the approval of thedean of the faculty...
...plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly hieratic tomb effigies of dead lords like Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, lying cross-legged and pointy-toed as though about to leap up from the slab, his sword half...
...Security benefits for wealthy recipients. Peter Peterson, a former Commerce Secretary and one-time head of the old Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment house, said that by limiting Social Security COLAs to 2%, the summiteers could have saved the Government $150 billion by the year 2000. "It would have meant $3 a week less" for Social Security recipients, said Peterson. "I don't believe that millions of nonpoor elderly, with pensions and all the other things, would have objected to that difference." But Ronald Reagan set the tone at the outset by announcing that everything except Social Security would...