Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the parishioners wear white ribbons for peace over their Sunday best and a few sport buttons with bull's eyes--meant to demonstrate that everyone is a target--to express their solidarity with those in Serbia...
...Orioles' gesture is one of good will, if it is meant to show us that two nations with outstanding political differences have something to learn from each other, than a game played on U.S. soil must be on American terms...
...Walter Isaacson, walked by my office. "I just wanted to make sure my daughter wasn't in your group," he told me. "I didn't want you to teach her how to write." This is not what you want to hear from your boss. I told the girls he meant that because my style is so complex, it would be confusing to them. They weren't buying...
Fifty years ago, movies were homogenous, meant to appeal to the whole family. Now pop culture has been Balkanized; it is full of niches, with different groups watching and playing their own things. And big movies, the ones that grab $20 million on their first weekend, are guy stuff. Young males consume violent movies, in part, for the same reason they groove to outlaw music: because their parents can't understand it--or stand it. To kids, an R rating for violence is like the Parental Advisory on CDs: a Good Housebreaking Seal of Approval...
...device that can help doctors decide whether to perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...