Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly 1.8 billion miles to inspect...
...point to his successful conclusion of his negotiating effort to create a democratic Zimbabwe as his greatest accomplishment. The peer's effort came to fruition in late 1979, only after he convinced Thatcher to reverse her public position that the rebellion led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness to abandon political theory for realpolitik...
...actually challenged me to think deeper about the subject at hand. A section leader in English who critiqued each of my arguments and wrote a full page of comments at essay's end reminded me of high school, when our ideas were taken seriously and not reduced to a mere checklist of buzzwords and cliches...
...money where its mouth is." Currently SASC is employing the very policies it derides President Derek Bok for following--attempting to force change from within. Whether SASC admits it or not, it is employing a form of constructive engagement. Divesting themselves from Harvard for a year would not be mere symbolism but a powerful action in support of its position...
...graduates] laugh, and they come in" to the store, said Martha A. Fallon, manager of The Harvard Shop, describing the special class shirt which reads "this shirt cost my family $63,721." By comparison, the shirt costs the graduate next to nothing, selling for a mere...