Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a sandpaper chamois. Using only simple instrumentation, with an occasional synthesizer riff or guitar blitz, Springsteen has created a modern surrogate for the resonant mystery on old blues and early rock records. This makes Tunnel of Love close kin to his 1982 solo effort, Nebraska, which was meant to sound homemade. Tunnel of Love takes that approach even further, into the mythic heart of American music and some slat-roof recording studio -- maybe on a prairie, maybe near a delta -- where a singer sits down, lays down a few sides, then % vanishes into the long night. Tunnel of Love...
...meant to be here," the longtime admissions officer told a group of about 25 students...
When making their decision, members of the Ad Board were well aware of what the clause meant. For Williams, the disciplinary probation sentence boiled down to one and only one thing: no football...
Williams said his written petition to the AdBoard explained, "I was aware of what I had doneand I realized why I was in this position. I alsotold them what football meant to me and that Ifelt I could contribute more to the community byplaying football...
...research when he was asked to assume control of the struggling space-science program at IKI in 1973. The position offered a measure of independence (though hardly on a level enjoyed by top NASA scientists), but it was still part of the rigid Soviet scientific bureaucracy. Recalls Sagdeyev: "It meant a big change in my life-style. There was a desire to do my own research and yet the obligation to run a large institution with many projects. But I didn't expect such a long imprisonment...