Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...activist about introducing Asian businessmen to the Clinton Administration and using them to funnel money to the Democratic National Committee. There were also new revelations of wire transfers from banks in Asia to two of the D.N.C.'s most generous donors, Johnny Chung and Yogesh Gandhi. But the evidence meant to show that foreign money had worked its way into Democratic coffers was circumstantial at best, and without further proof could be explained away as routine investment and consulting fees...
...members and supporters of the gay community both at Harvard and beyond, the decision, while not surprising to them either, has so far meant satisfaction...
...when he stood up to say that he would fight for his principles, the clothes were there to show that politics were not involved. He meant exactly what he said. But it seems that the Boston political media just doesn't get it. Just moments after our governor explained that he was standing up to the more powerful fringes of his party in defense of his political ideology, evening anchors were already explaining what a savvy political move had just been made. Even if the governor had pulled out his squash racquet and hit them over the head, the Boston...
...what if his ruse actually works? How is Ambassador Weld to run for a higher office from the porch of his Mexico City hacienda? Bill Weld had thousands of options this week, and if he was still running for office he wouldn't have committed to the one that meant leaving the country...
...press' analysis of the governor's announcement is not meant as slander. The media love their Brattle Street governor. They love when his dead-pan wit turns a mundane press conference into an event that makes HBO's Comedy Central look like church, or when his beefed-up intellect sends them scurrying for a dictionary. Their analysis is not that of critics judging an artist, but instead, that of children trying to show their father they understand what he's up to. Yet these children actually have no idea what their father is up to. His move is too simple...