Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very different world. Something else you'd better do better than we have: learn how to balance the books. We're leaving you with a $2 trillion national debt. Along with your own problems and your own bills, you're going to get the privilege of handling some of mine. I'll tell you one thing: don't try to pay it off in cash. It would take the U.S. Mint 57 years, two months and two weeks just to print it. We've been using your credit card, and you didn't even know...
...defendant, said Federal Prosecutor John Douglass, was nothing short of a walking "gold mine" of U.S. intelligence capabilities. He knew how the U.S. was able to intercept the Soviet Union's "command and control" communications, which contained military instructions from "the highest level" of the Kremlin to the next echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia...
First of all, there's Harvard Humor. Earlier this year, a friend of mine remarked that people here don't tell the conventional kinds of jokes. Being funny here is being more caustic and cynical than everyone else about everything. It's attacking as many sacred cows per minute as you can. Catholicism. Child abuse. Masturbation. The space shuttle astronauts. The welfare state. Women's rights. If you let any Harvard student let you know there's something you take seriously, get set to hear a nasty joke about...
...intimidating, insecure freshmen whomust have looked just like me. Everyone had done alot. Most people were doing a lot. Very few knewwhat they were doing. They were concerned withplacement tests, choosing courses, meeting membersof the opposite sex, and wanted to be eitheraccepted or not accepted. In their concerns, Irecognized mine...
...seemore than the hard surface of Crimson members.I've had the opportunity to interact both withpeople who will continue to be my closest friendsand people who will continue. Boston's presencehas provided me invaluable education and starkawakening. I've been able to teach many about theculture that is half mine. Everything that theysaid came true...