Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reassuring to learn that there are a number of parents who, "believing they can do it better," teach their children at home. I have been teaching two of mine since September, and it has been a rewarding experience for both the children and me. In the atmosphere of comparative freedom, lack of censure, and individual attention at home, I have seen them flourish in academic and other ways...
...billion tax cut and a $60.6 billion budget deficit in fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. As late as March, misled by alarmist predictions from Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that a continued coal strike would cripple national production, Administration aides led by Robert Strauss forced on mine operators a settlement that will raise wages and benefits nearly 40% over three years...
...acquaintance of mine has an excellent term for unmarried couples who are living together: covivant. It is charming and elegant, yet highly descriptive...
When a friend of mine introduces or refers to the man with whom his daughter is living in an unmarried state he calls...
...dean also recalled his celebrated comment in last month's New Yorker, when he asserted that "Harvard is mine." Rosovsky reminded students that "You are here for four years, I am here for life, and the institution is here forever...