Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copy underneath this practically inexplicable visual reads "The Glenlivet. Just Slightly Out of Reach." The effect is to emphasize that this type of whiskey is too prestigious, too refined, for mere mortals who are puny and insignificant compared to the grandeur of Glenlivet whiskey. The allure of the unachieveable that the ad plays on is linked with the books that accompany the whiskey on the shelf. These books have an offputting, "artsy" exterior, not to mention that each title remarks on the diminishing stature of humans...
Meanwhile, four Tufts pitchers--Steve Amyouny (now 4-0), Kerry Callahan, LaVallee and Bloom--combined to limit Harvard to a mere two runs...
...task upon returning to the States has been to shuffle through the many ideas and impressions we encountered in a mere nine days. It is difficult to define the exact purpose of our exchange with the Soviet Union. A number of delegates felt uncomfortable with the idea that we were part of some grand plan to foster mutual understanding between peoples. Were we really there to work toward some sort of peace and to be emissaries of democracy? It was easier for us to view ourselves as friendly American college students than as dictionary sources of democracy...
...Mere discrimination on the basis of sex does not connote sexual harassment," Garrity said in court...
...Jewish underground in pre-1948 Palestine, managed to avoid an open confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer to it. At the same time he managed to create the general impression that his differences with the U.S. were a mere ripple in an otherwise harmonious friendship. The Reagan Administration too seemed eager to put the best possible light on the meetings. "What I am happy to tell you," said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy to a congressional committee, "is that we don't have a no from any party...