Word: meant
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...fear that what the Crimson staff meant to say, if they had been forthright, is that students' ties to evangelical Christianity frightens them in a way that, say, students' involvement with ethnic or progressive groups does not. The Crimson displays a severe double standard; a good number of the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates have ties to a wide variety of student groups, but the Crimson staff does not cite those ties as hindrances to those candidates' effectiveness. It seems that among liberals, bias against religion may be one of the last acceptable prejudices. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH...
Benefits for domestic partners were approved in July by Boston lawmakers as a home rule petition. The move would have meant the municipalities had the right to choose whether to extend benefits to domestic partners, but Governor A. Paul Cellucci vetoed the measure...
...general technology, allowing the secure transmission of any information that is meant to be safe from prying Internet eyes. It is SSL, for example, that secures the transmission of the course grades you can retrieve from the Harvard Registrar's on-line site, thus making sure that your nosy computer-geek roommate has no way of knowing how you did in Expos...
...flamboyant fellow--"Good Time Charlie Merrill," his friends called him--he had the unconscious expectation that Great Men always have: that he should be at the center of any orbit he entered. And so he was. As his son once wrote, "Whatever he decided to serve, the victim was meant to choke it down and be grateful...
...risk of oversimplifying a rather complex business phenomenon, it can be said that the easiest way to grasp the essence of what Sam Walton meant to America is to read his ad slogan emblazoned on all those Wal-Mart trucks you see barreling down highways around the country: WE SELL FOR LESS, ALWAYS. Walton did not invent discount retailing, just as Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. But just as Ford and his cars revolutionized America and its industrial model, Walton's extraordinary pursuit of discounting revolutionized the country and its service economy. Walton didn't merely alter...