Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the essentials have remained constant, not everything, of course, is the same. In my family, vacation, when we aren't visiting relatives, has always meant camping and hiking--Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountains or, for a day trip, a trail in the mountains or the desert a couple of hours drive away. But this summer, my family decided to try something new. We have lived an hour away from Los Angeles for ten years, but we rarely visit. (Irvine and its neighbors are technically suburbs, but they are cities themselves, and most people do not commute). So a couple...
...Kirk, dealing with the problem next meant reporting the outbreak to the county infectious-disease nurses, who in turn reported to Gayle Miller, Wyoming's chief epidemiologist. Miller and her nurses knew immediately that even six cases meant an epidemic. They began canvassing the region to locate others who had been infected, and each time they found someone sick, they began interviewing that person, looking for a common source of infection. After a week they had 26 confirmed E. coli cases in four states, and the numbers seemed likely to grow...
...awareness of great books and begin a discussion on the canon of twentieth century English literature--drew criticism from many for including only 10 books by women, about a third of the writers on the Radcliffe list are women. Both the Modern Library's and Radcliffe's lists were meant to be released today at Radcliffe, but both were given to the press early...
Hess warned the lists should not be compared against each other. Echoing the Modern Library, she said the lists are meant to start a discussion on this century's literary canon. "The importance of this exercise is to get word-of-mouth out on old books," she said...
...most of them disagreed with the content, which basically meant that they saw nothing wrong with calling certain people "orientals" even though one girl had written about how much it offended her and even though plenty of more sophisticated literature had been written criticizing that term...