Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts House of Representatives last night put its final stamp of approval on the Gay Rights Bill, clearing its last major obstacle on the path to becoming...
...Crimson played the Bruins even for 116 tantalizing minutes. But with four minutes to play in the second overtime period, a Suzanne Bailey header wasted Harvard's valiant effort, propelling Brown to a 2-1 victory and a clear path to the Ivy title...
...into wild enthusiasm for his Administration. Just 27% said they approve of Bush's performance "strongly," and half approve "only somewhat." While 49% credit Bush with taking charge on major issues, 40% think he merely talks about them. Two-thirds think Bush has "pretty much followed" Ronald Reagan's path, vs. one-quarter who believe he has "brought real change." The desire for new approaches found by opinion surveys last year seems to have receded...
...possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that the belief that each individual could pursue a different path to the future is an idea that these officepeople invented, but which lay dormant between their time and ours.) The following then perhaps represents different temples assigned to the different possible futures. They could also represent only metaphysical spaces of belief. Or they could be descriptions of people and interests...
Time was when what used to be called juvenile delinquents were offered a $ stark choice: join the service or go to jail. A dose of military discipline was supposed to make a man out of a boy and set him on the path to respectable citizenship. But the all-volunteer armed forces eliminated that option for what are now called youthful offenders. In a growing number of states, however, the purported benefits of paramilitary discipline are being showered on young criminals through programs known as "shock incarceration...