Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reskin's research has centered on gender inequality, especially in the workplace. She said that accepting tenure meant also accepting new problems in her personal life...
...both pleased and stressed [to accept tenure]," she said. "Pleased not to have been rejected and at having the chance to come here, but stressed that it meant making a difficult decision between some very attractive alternatives (none of which was the OSU Sociology department...
...short introduction, Felipe Agredano-Lozano, a graduate of the Divinity School, spoke of how much Guevara meant...
...broad ranging. Given an enormous acquisitions fund, Walsh has bought prudently and selectively. The art world's fear that the Getty would crash the Old Masters market like an 800-lb. gorilla has proved largely groundless. The collection's focus is fairly narrow; it was never, Walsh points out, meant to be a "Western Met," an encyclopedic museum. Its collection of painting and sculpture, entirely European, stops at the threshold of the 20th century--the most recent picture in it is James Ensor's huge, pullulating satire, The Entry of Christ into Brussels...
...task that faced Meier and Stephen Rountree, the director of the building program, in getting a conditional-use permit from the city of Los Angeles. This entailed dealing with scores of regulations; no excavated earth, for instance, could be moved off the site. It also meant interminable meetings, sometimes verging on the rancorous, with associations of homeowners in the surrounding areas of Bel Air and Brentwood...