Word: meant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...husband is not Secretary of State. I am.' HILLARY CLINTON, responding to a question from a Congolese university student during her tour of Africa; according to reports, the student had meant to inquire about President Barack Obama's position on an issue but instead mistakenly referred to former President Bill Clinton...
Sections: 1. Weekly meeting with graduate students of varying teaching abilities and intelligence (see TF). 2. Meant to complement courses taught by big-name professors too busy to teach the important details that will appear on the final...
...there was the sweat-stained T-shirt sold by Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash in 2008. "It was a Clash T-shirt with sweaty armpits - they were so stained that if you looked at it, you would think it's disgusting," said Woolley. But the stains also meant Strummer likely wore it onstage, and it came with a handwritten note that read "This shirt was mine and worn by me - this is a f**n great shirt! Signed Joe Strummer." The final sale price...
...biochemistry professor at Stanford. After quitting school for a while in ninth grade - "I was tired of competing with Gilbert" - he didn't make the Ivy League, so he settled for the University of Rochester. His father once told him he'd never succeed in physics. "What he meant was, compared to Gilbert," recalls younger brother Morgan, a high school dropout who still earned four advanced degrees by the time he was 25 and is now a renowned litigator. (Read "Energy Secretary: Steven...
...reset, announced by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in February, was meant to signal the rebuilding of the relationship between the U.S. and Russia that had soured under George W. Bush. But despite some progress on issues such as arms control and Afghanistan when U.S. President Barack Obama visited Moscow in July, it's back to business as usual for Russia with its neighbors, as it tries to assert its authority despite the U.S.'s disapproval. "The one thing that could most endanger the reset policy would be really bad Russian behavior in the post-Soviet states," says Steven Pifer...