Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When another vote was taken on the measure, Rudenstine's call for "no" votes found a silent room. Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, who had voted "no" in the original vote, abstained but later said he had meant to prevent unanimity...
After World War II, nothing of such magnitude would be tried in America; the triumph of the glass-box International Style meant the death of ornament and a recoil from "fine" material. Nor, in the '70s and '80s, was the cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive a sense of grandeur. Moreover, with the exception of various memorials, and of such projects as Richard Meier's six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles (to be completed later this year), the level of grand commissions for public benefit flattened...
...news, ending a rollercoaster day that had sent prices down as much as 80 points in the morning with a 74-point Dow advance to 7303. The decision will hold the rate that commercial banks charge one another for overnight loans at 5.5 percent. A rate hike would have meant higher borrowing costs for millions of credit card-wielding Americans, but would also have slowed the economy and dampened inflation. Characteristically refusing to comment on the decision, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues left Wall Street economists to speculate over their reasoning. Analysts had expected at least a slight...
...growing lack of intimacy, in a way, symbolizes his one big disappointment with it. It was meant to be a social place. "The original goal was working together with others," he says. "The Web was supposed to be a creative tool, an expressive tool." He had imagined, say, a worker posting a memo on a Website accessible only to colleagues and having them react by embedding hyperlinks that led to their comments or to other relevant documents; or a bicoastal family similarly planning its annual reunion on the family site...
...number of children remain in dire poverty, have we been successful? Families use welfare for many reasons: a terminally ill mother, a father who has lost his job and exhausted his unemployment benefits, a battered wife escaping an abusive relationship. Most of these people use welfare as it was meant to be used, as a temporary safety net. Yet Wisconsin has designed a system that treats all recipients as if they are long-term dependents. It is clear to those of us working in the community that our effort and money would be better spent on eliminating poverty and creating...