Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This ritual, dating from an earlier era, is meant to signify the fact that a woman is now marriageable. For this reason she must be introduced to society so that everyone knows she is now wife material. It generally happens during a woman's first year of college. However, most social beings have spent many a night doing the Harvard social scene. Does a woman's ability to romp around late at night render this custom less necessary? Perhaps. Even so, there is no shortage of Harvard debutantes. Unfortunately, as debutante balls have been the victims of quite extensive criticism...
...consensus on these parties seems to be that they can be a lot of fun as long as one does not get caught up in the prospect that they are meant to showcase women and find them husbands in a certain social stratum. Emily '00 (not the author) was somewhat pleasantly surprised with the deb balls she attended: "They were really beautiful and a lot of fun. Although they were silly because people seemed to have lost their sense of reality, there was a much more interesting mix of people than I expected. I would have thought the crowd would...
...personal level, we have developed a relationship with Herb and Sue and in the end that meant more than pure economics," Palandjian said...
...trial evokes feelings ranging from dread to relief. University of Colorado engineering professor John Hauser, who was an Air Force pilot and aspiring astronaut when he was injured in a May 1985 bombing at Berkeley, says the arrest of a suspect and the halt to the bombings meant more to him than the trial. "If having the trial over means that I could fly jets again and pursue those paths, I'd say, 'Hey, great! Cool!'" he told TIME. "But it's not going to bring my hand back or the use of my arm. So the trial doesn...
...still working out the kinks in the theory when the market bounced back. Naturally, I was pleased to see people get their nest eggs back, even if it meant the abandonment of my theory. And I wouldn't want to see the guys with red suspenders lose so much money that they started hurling themselves out windows. On the other hand, what if they lost just enough money that they had to start eating at home...