Word: rather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, for this discussion I am concerned only about the part of the fee that gets returned to student groups, rather than used for council operations, social affairs and so on. I don't have a view at present as to whether the amount being used for those other ends is right...
Averell said his legal strategy will be a push to delay tomorrow's hearing to a later date rather than to plead...
...public relations executive David Feider thinks about this New Year's Eve, for instance, he fantasizes about absconding to a hideaway along Lake Superior to "stare at the moon, as far away from the rabble as possible"--to escape not Y2K-prompted food riots or the Four Horsemen but rather the omnipresent buzz over the event. "I can't really identify with it anymore," he says. "People are getting so numbed by all the pregame coverage on so many things, they can hardly hold on for the game...
...single-handedly when he traveled to the U.S. in April--and failed when the White House decided a deal was politically unwise. Jiang patiently waited for Clinton to approach him, meanwhile building a consensus among the Chinese leadership that made the final negotiations this month a question of technicalities rather than political will...
...Obviously, the New Orleans Saints. It's hard to imagine that God would choose men who jump on each other, grunt at each other and curse at each other as his agents. But the fact that they have lost so many games shows they are truly men of prayer rather than men of football talent...