Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later advice meant, I now realize, that I should know when to pull the covers down and stick my neck out," Asgedom said. "That's the hard part...
...There is nothing that promotes women more than the chance to receive scholarships," she adds. "The program is meant to reward women who have dedicated a lot of their time to perfecting a talent and keeping themselves in good physical health...
...There is nothing that promotes women more than the chance to receive scholarships," she adds. "The program is meant to reward women who have dedicated a lot of their time to perfecting a talent and keeping themselves in good physical health...
...best guess is the lyrics were changed because "thy sons" is a remnant of Harvard's exclusively male past. The lyric is not meant to constantly remind Harvard women that they have not always been full and equal members of the University. But it can. Women's reactions to the phrase "thy sons" range from complete acceptance to indifference to outrage. So why is my reaction somewhere between the first two? As a woman, I should embrace the politically correct change. After all, the Harvard that sang only of its sons is one that didn't want...
...never seen the administration fighting so hard as they are on this," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., before he watched his steel-import quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization and freer trade (meaning more U.S. products in foreign markets), the last...