Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reason, despite the four-dollar ticket prices, fans found their way across the river, and for the first time in a long time, Harvard hockey reverted back to the days when home ice really meant something. Not only were there bodies in the stands, but there were screaming, jeering students who actually made their presence known...
...book is meant to shed light on the United States' problems with Cuba, and is a foreign policy survey only insofar as its articles contribute meaningfully to understanding this particular relationship. The summaries in Reversing Relations would be justified if they led to concrete conclusions about how the U.S. should proceed in its dealings with Cuba. Failure to integrate the separate articles and produce these conclusions is this book's biggest failing. How can problems with the former Soviet Union and China, two major world powers and UN Security Council permanent members, compare to diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and Cuba...
Today, more than 15 campus groups are coming together to sponsor a talk concerning the working conditions of strawberry farm workers in California. Speakers will include Professors Cornel West and John Womack, long-time activist Sister Tess Browne and two worker activists. The talk is meant to raise awareness on campus of the attempts to unionize strawberry workers by the United Farm Workers...
...where having an answer has not always meant the same thing as telling the truth, Michael McCurry had led a most charmed existence. Witty, candid and usually unflappable, McCurry was the rare White House press secretary whose reputation had not only survived but flourished--even as he brokered every day the conflicting interests of a scandal-prone President and a hard-bitten press corps. But as he stood gripping the briefing-room lectern last week, McCurry was showing uncustomary strain. He set his lips tightly when a reporter asked whether the press secretary could be sure that President Clinton...
...massive, massive crush on you as a kid. I didn't even know what it meant. I just kind of wanted to be around you. I mean, like, wow! Am I scaring...