Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, Crimson striker Dave Kramer was decked from behind. Surely the whistel-happy referee couldn't let this one go. Of course not. He called a foul on Kramer, and later tacked on a yellow card to boot...
...cartels are having trouble getting cocaine out of Colombia," said Pat O'Brien, outgoing chief of U.S. Customs in Miami. The government has seized so many of the traffickers' planes and helicopters that they may be having difficulty moving the powder to Colombia's northern coast, the main shipment point for cocaine. And on the drug-hungry streets of the U.S., the price of cocaine is skyrocketing...
...develop the sprawling western state of Rondonia. The program, backed by subsidies and built around a highway through the state called BR-364, was designed to relieve population pressures in southern Brazil. But Polonoroeste has made Rondonia the area where rain-forest destruction is most rapid, and the focal point of the fight to save the Amazon...
Mather House senior tutor Pat Hoy comes to Harvard from West Point, where last year he retired from a position teaching English. And Garth O. McCavana has been named senior tutor of Kirland...
...That transition was for us...a rather profound experience--that you could have been so brought up to hold a point of view and then see it all crumble...