Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House has meant to us every- thing we honor in a university: creativity,high academic achievement, independence of spirit,celebration of difference and distaste forpomposity," the Kielys wrote...
Pandemonium reigns when the outlaw--800 lbs. of overfed, visibly upset black bear--emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...
...DODGE TOURING CAR This was the first car with a steel frame, which meant the car could hold the road better under all kinds of conditions...
...virtually all respects, the Aussies were not here to show off. Even their decision to open with contemporary South Australian composer Graeme Koehne's Elevator Music, complete with maracas, hypnotic blues lines and African drum rhythms, was not meant to be flamboyant as it was meant to be fun. It seemed that their intention was to enliven the audience...
...Pinochet's arrest," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Right now that policy is in flux." On Monday State Department spokesman James Rubin promised the U.S. would "declassify and make public as much information as possible" over human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet; then on Wednesday he said that meant only that the U.S. would "review" the those documents. Rubin's shuffling is reflective of a fierce debate in the State Department and National Security Council...