Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time I took Expos, everyone knew the grading policy of the section leaders. Bomb the first paper and let the paupers work their way up to a respectable grade. This policy was meant to break down your bad habits and allow you gradually to rebuild your skills. Confidence was assumed to follow. If you did all the assignments--even it you still hadn't completed a sentence--you were almost guaranteed a B or better...
...anxiety that rippled through the general public. Though only one in five U.S. households invests directly in the stock market, its gyrations can hurt everyone. People who had never bought a stock in their lives were struggling to figure out what the wild ride on Wall Street meant to them, their jobs, their families and their security. Businessmen feared that queasy consumers might stop spending as freely as they have been in recent years. Workers feared that a market collapse could usher in a recession that would cost them jobs or bonuses or take a bite out of their profit...
...derogatory statement about the dining hall staff" referred to in the article was unfortunately misconstrued by newcomers to Quincy House who are not familiar with my style which admittedly is susceptible to misunderstanding I meant no disrespect to the checkers. I only meant to express my frustration, through hyperbole, that complicated interhouse schemes would not be workable at Quincy. As I said to Brooke Masters of The Crimson, I meant my remark in an obviously sarcastic way, and to anyone who was offended by it. I offer my sincere apologies, both to Quincy newcomers and to dining hall staff members...
...Samhain meant a great deal to the Celts (the pagans who threw the parties): It was a celebration of the harvest, a way of thanking the gods for their help, and it symbolized the coming of Death to the world in the form of winter...
...panel discussion at the Went-worth Institute of Technology, the Boston Society of Architects, social workers and architects told an audience of 40 last night that the competition was meant to show that permanent homes could help Boston's homeless people more than the creation of new temporary shelters. The panel said that efforts to produce shelters often sap cities' ability to build new homes for people...