Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together on the big boats prior to the official pre-race test run but managed to hang on to second place after the first day of sailing. "We were behind Delaware by eight points and there were two more races to go, which is a huge gap," Horn said. Nevertheless, the team closed the gap in the last two races, sailing well enough to edge out the University of Delaware for first place...
...Until the last day, I tried to bring about a peaceful settlement," the exiled Dalai Lama said in his first press conference in 1959. He added that he hoped to help the continuing struggle in Tibet "by means of peaceful solutions rather than military force." Nevertheless, Chinese brutality drove some Tibetans into the mountains to organize guerilla resistance. Their efforts have been futile. Today an occupation army of 300,000 enforces Chinese dictates. Dissentors are publicly executed. Monks who refuse to defrock are interred in labor camps. Between 5000 and 6000 monasteries have been destroyed...
...tournament director apologized for not having the foresight to see the problem he created," Felske said. Nevertheless the coach's protest was dismissed...
...Nevertheless, Council members remain uneasy about the possibility of mass exodus. Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, last year submitted a memo on study abroad to Dean Fox listing the dangers of large-scale foreign study programs. Davis claimed he could "foresee difficulties in administering an already cumbersome housing lottery" as well as the rise of "issues of financial aid and lost tuition income for the college." The Council shared his nervousness and asked financial aid and admissions officers to produce figures. But because they had no way of predicting how many students will actually take advantage...
...Nevertheless, Theroux includes some passable anecdotes, like one on the inappropriate naming of South American cities: "None of the Lagunas Verdes was green...Progreso in Guatemala was backward; La Liberated in El Salvador, a stronghold of repression in a country where salvation seemed in short supply." And his descriptions of the class stigmas on the trains and his interview with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges are superb...