Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Course I did enjoy good food and the company of friends and family, giving only occasional thought to my reading period workload. But lest I got too complacent lazing about in front of the warm glow of the television, someone unfamiliar with my peculiar predicament was always there to remind...
Never make promises you don't intend to keep. The corollary to the resolution above, we gently remind the administration to be less hypocritical. Don't promise to improve student course flexibility and then get rid of AP Science exemptions for the Core. Last year we were promised two-ply toilet paper. Many houses, especially in the Quad, have yet to experience such luxuries...
...Speaker-elect (although not for long) Bob Livingston announcing that because he wasn't "running for saint," his occasional affairs shouldn't be held against him. He called what he did "straying," said he had "sought spiritual counseling," and "received forgiveness" from his family. Sound familiar? Lest this remind anyone of you-know-who, he asserted, "These indiscretions were not with employees on my staff, and I have never been asked to testify under oath about them...
...this gray Saturday evening was determinedly un-Nixon-like. Instead of stepping down, Clinton the great campaigner will spend a long and busy winter on one last bid. He has a slogan -- "Stop the politics of personal destruction" -- and an escape plan: bipartisan censure. To win, he has to remind Americans how much they always wanted him to stay...
...University's performance on another criterion-the social experience of black students-is alarming. Harvard received a disappointing score of 3.75 out of 5. While no ranking can be taken without a grain of salt, and the criteria of this ranking seem especially vague, the rankings nevertheless should remind us of a troubling fact: Harvard is still a place where black students feel markedly less comfortable than their white counterparts...