Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After their first year of learning the law, 1L's as they are often called, face a myriad of summer job options which may determine their future devotion to earnings or ethics...
...freedom means choice, then Baryshnikov reveled in it, pursuing myriad options. He has worked with a dozen or so choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
...live for their children. They are, in a sense, more serious about life than the settled can be, for they are in a dangerous passage. It makes them very much alive. It makes the American juices flow. In this special issue, TIME describes the newest Americans and addresses the myriad ways in which they are carrying on an honored tradition: contributing their bloodlines, their spirit and their energy to preserve the nation's vitality and uniqueness...
...previous day, Indian meteorologists had alerted the Bangladesh government in Dhaka that a killer storm was sweeping toward the country's myriad offshore islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor...
...battle over tax reform and the minimum tax promises to provoke the most heated lobbying that Capitol Hill has seen in years, much of it aimed at protecting the myriad tax deductions enacted over the decades. But with the polls clearly showing that the people want a fairer and simpler tax code, the leaders of both parties seem eager to follow. Now that the President appears ready to join the battle, tax reform may never have a better chance of getting past the proposal stage...