Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing is going on until at least 11 p.m., and everything comes to a dead stop by 1 a.m. for the rare House party, 2 a.m. for all city establishments. At that point, further pickings are slim. Guys without a club go home, and girls bat eyelashes, wipe spilled beer from tight black pants and smile pretty at the door of a final club...
Harvard's rare books seem to be protected more carefully than its students. Houghton is rigged with more alarms than Tiffany and Co., non-circulating libraries abound and some security checkers seem ready to whip out the rubber gloves at any moment...
Wilson noted yesterday that it has been a "rare privilege" to lead Radcliffe...
...percent have some history of substance abuse, but only one in ten prisoners gets the treatment they need. Though the recidivism rate for people who get a college education in prison is almost zero, in almost all prisons there is no education available beyond G.E.D. Meaningful job training is rare. The general attitude of women's prisons is one of infantilizing paternalism that works to further undermine women's self-esteem and independence. Instead of empowering women to lead responsible lives, women's prisons reinforce feelings of entrapment and further dependency on the welfare state and men who pass through...
...rare that comings and goings among top-level technology executives reach the level of high drama, but they did yesterday when Eckhard Pfeiffer and Earl Mason, the number one and number two at Compaq Computer Corporation, handed in their resignations. The news came a little more than a week after Compaq announced massive shortfalls in revenues and earnings, and Wall Street hammered Compaq's stock accordingly. In a year when personal computers are ever more vital accessories, when even underdog Apple is making a killing, why can't the world's largest PC manufacturer make money...