Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told that girls get pregnant here everyday and that 99 percent of them get abortions," Ocon says. "It shocked me. It didn't click until almost a year, when Bailey had already been born and I was planning my return to Harvard, as to what that meant. There are so many financial and psychological disincentives to being a parent here...
...their introductory classes. Furthermore, though it is undergoing change, it is often unclear what the objective is for a science Core class and how these goals differ from A to B. This lack of clarity often leads to either a very limited or very facile reach in a class meant to show essentially the breadth of science to non-science concentrators...
Many in Ball's family protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
After that, it'd be hard to deny that the strong points in Scream 2--a movie so meant to engage the audience's memory, expectations and self-reflexive reactions--are not the meta ones, but standard horror applied in ever more surprising ways (but not too surprising; things peter out quickly). For example, a man accompanied by two others in a wide open campus field in front of several buildings is stalked and killed by man. Trying to outwit his assailant as he speaks with him on a cell phone, the man is pied-pipered to his own doom...
Motherhood, with all its complications and considerations, was the last thing on the minds of both Ocon and Payanzo back in high school when college meant independence...