Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friday's symposium was meant to foster a free flow of ideas on approaches toward ethnic studies...
...interesting parts of the tapes. He dutifully indicated every presidential hello to Huang. Maybe Davis should also have singled out Clinton reminding one group how the golfer Greg Norman squandered a six-shot lead at the Masters. "This thing could get away from us," the President warns. What he meant then was that his pre-election lead in the polls could similarly melt away. All the same, that's a remark that could turn out to be true in ways he didn't mean at the time...
...costs sharply. As a result, these flying machines cost from a few thousand dollars to $30,000, in contrast to $100,000 or more for a conventional aircraft. "Before these planes came along," says police sergeant Bruce Talbot, who built and operates his Long-EZ in Bolingbrook, Ill., "flying meant you had to be a rich...
...idea had been to create a secondary school in New York City's East Harlem in which less was more. Smaller and fewer classes meant increased individual attention and a deeper understanding of subjects. She built the school a grade at a time, starting with the seventh in '85, until the school had a Division I for seventh- and eighth-graders, a Division II for ninth- and 10th-graders and a Senior Institute for 11th- and 12th-graders--546 students in all this year, with 41 full-time staff members...
...other members of that organization, she is a committed, sincere believer in whole language. "Mary knew how to read when she got to first grade," Avery says. "I asked her what she read in school, and she said, 'We don't read stories; we do papers.'" By "papers" Mary meant phonics work sheets. "She had a terrible time that year," Avery continues, now holding back tears. "She cried every night. She had to stand in the corner with her nose against the wall for having too many mistakes on her work sheets. That's the sort of experience I fear...