Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore, listening to "urban contemporary"--a mix of soul, rhythm and blues, go go and hip hop. When I picked Harvard over Yale, Brown and Princeton, I thought that I had lucked out musically because it also meant I was choosing Boston over New Haven, Providence and Princeton. Boston was an urban center, I figured, and how could there be an urban center without "urban contemporary...
...large urban FM could expand this market to suburban kids like me, who nationally are the number one buyer of rap records. When Chuck D of Public Enemy said that rap is "the black CNN," he meant that it was a way for blacks to get information from other black communities; by bringing this information to white suburban teens (most of whom don't watch white CNN), black artists, with the help of urban radio stations, have the potential to make the country's most serious social problems meaningful to the nation's next generation of leaders...
Jamal K. Greene's column on Charles Oakley and Latrell Sprewell (Sports, Jan. 20) lulls the reader into a false sense of security. Greene makes us think that the author understands what Oakley meant to New York sports fans and why the Sprewell trade is a tragedy for the Knicks...
...These loans are meant to support the institution and its mission," says Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, vice president for finance. "It's really strategic...
...past, Manoni's decision would have meant that she could not graduate with honors, but thanks to recent changes in the English department, she did not sacrifice her chance to earn honors this spring...