Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sprung, far ahead of the Dec. 2 decision deadline, disclosing that Reno's staff and the FBI want to shut down the case. Some officials suspect that the leaks are trial balloons aimed at pressing the Attorney General to go along with staff recommendations. Also, the leaks may be meant to defuse the political outcry sure to come from G.O.P. critics: Can anyone really object to a shutdown if Justice career staff and the FBI are a united front? "Looks like there's some heavy-duty softening going on," says a ranking Justice official. In fact, sources say, FBI Director...
...Bulldogs demonstrated from the outset that they meant business, as quarterback Chris Whittaker ran in the first score of the day just minutes into the game...
...intact the way its counterparts on the defense--seniors Chris Smith, Jason Hughes, Tim Fleiszer, Chris Schaefer and Brendan Bibro--did. Although it returned as starters seniors Birk and Elliott and junior Shreve, the loss of last year's captain Sean Riley at tackle and Rob Jungerhans at center meant some fairly significant realignments were necessary...
...course, no matter what the Beatles sang about, they always sang like they meant it--a statement that the Apples In Stereo can't claim. Clever lyrics are hurt as often as helped from Schneider's laid back attitude. Imagine Lennon and McCartney singing while strung out on acid and mescaline, and you get the idea. Too often, instead of sounding cool, Schneider simply sounds anemic, like his heart beats at about the half the rate of a normal person. When he and his fellow co-vocalists really lay into a song, like the catchy "We'll Come...
Chang's interpretation of Mozart's Sonata in C Major, K. 296, was not so graceful. Her bright, biting tone cast an unforgiving light on the piece which, like most of Mozart's work, requires a light touch. Mozart sonatas are meant to be played with an almost off-hand ease: the bubbling passages and sweet melodies cannot be trudged through. The ringing intensity of Chang's playing was not at all suited to the delicate and almost childlike sonata. Chang's high notes blossomed in this piece as in all the others, but the low notes were swallowed...