Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...note, Tapson, Huber, Jean-Louis and Cassell all played their last home matches as members of the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...former Federal Reserve governor who is now chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, praised the Fed chairman for his decisive actions. But critics like Paul Craig Roberts of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies charge that Greenspan also helped cause last week's market disaster. They note that back on Sept. 4, Greenspan's first important move as Fed chief was to push successfully for a hike in the bellwether discount rate, the interest that the Fed charges on funds lent to financial institutions, from 5 1/2% to 6%. It was the first such increase in nearly...
...ocher-colored St. Catherine Hall of the Kremlin's Great Palace. "I think this will happen," he replied, somewhat evasively, when reporters questioned him about the prospects for a summit. Asked whether he would like to see just Washington or the rest of the country, he again sounded a note of doubt. "I would like to see the country, the whole country," he answered. "Whether I am able to is the question...
...most intriguing offer from Gorbachev may be yet to come. Shevardnadze noted that the Soviet leader planned to send a personal note to Reagan that might put the summit back on track. When asked if he saw any need for another meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Shultz replied, "I don't think we have anything in particular to meet about." Then he added, "The main thing, I guess, is to keep checking with the mailman to see what he brings...
...matters of grammar, everyone can now do their own thing -- or so RHD-II argues in a note that endorses using their with a singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...