Word: merely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the home of the enemy, I began to realize what Fenway was to that famed Boston fan. The same fan who squelched my overzealous animosity towards their team, and the same fan who did not accept a mere win as excellence. But rather the fan who looks for the sound thrashing of an opponent as something to talk about. Perhaps I had tasted the real flavor of Fenway...
...that their major campaign is over, fund raisers can focus on the university's more routine, annual solicitations This year's goal: a mere $50 million...
Distrust of secret trials runs deep in Anglo-American tradition. Long before the Court of Star Chamber was abolished in England in 1641, it had been widely recognized that without public scrutiny trials can be used as blunt instruments of persecution. Open trials provide more than the mere appearance of justice; they also help ensure that justice is done...
...then see how far they will get with their assignment if they are unable to promise an informant, who may be risking his job, assured confidentiality, or if they are hit by subpoenas, now said to be running at the rate of 100-plus a year, many of these mere "fishing expeditions...
...performing groups, like the nation's, continue to proliferate at a time when public and foundation grants are drying up. In Massachusetts last year, close to 350 recipients got a share of the state art council's $2.5 million budget, with the highest gift, a mere $45,000, going to the B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas New York City...