Word: reckoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reckon about 20 years for a power plant topay itself back," Yeaple says...
That courage will be necessary in the weeks ahead, when all who have watched the carnage unfold will have to reckon with its meaning. It was one thing to imagine the threats from outside, the killers seeping across porous borders, waging war for causes beyond understanding. It was quite another to behold the ring of police cars descending on a pristine white farmhouse nestled in acres of cropland and wonder what hatreds are growing here at home, next door, right in plain sight...
Graduate school is expensive, and teaching undergraduates will not pay for the entire cost of a graduate education. This is simply a financial reality that all graduate students, including those at universities other than Yale, must reckon with. The situation for teaching assistants at Yale may be especially difficult, as union organizers contend. But the particulars of the situation are not central to the main issue: that the teaching assistants should have the right to unionize...
When asked as to whether she thought Harvard would be a force to reckon with next season, Heit answered in the affirmative...
...Kong (Slim Pickens) and his crew are shocked by their orders to deliver approximately 60 megatons of nuclear devices to sites in Russia within two hours. Over the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Slim's Texas drawl offers a few inspirational words to the crew: "I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nuclear combat." The boys drop their new issue of Playboy, Slim replaces his flight helmet with a Stetson, and the crew is battle-ready, hell bent on serving their country by destroying...