Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summers ago I worked on a G.M. assembly line. If I ever considered not finishing up my education, that job changed my mind," he recalls. "Then last summer in addition to studying for LSATs, I delivered oxygen for a surgical supply company. I saw some really sad things, people who didn't have much. It really makes you stop and think, and thank God for what you have. I know I never want to go into the surgical supply business...
Well, sorry to disillusion you, but having the Hobey Baker Award winner and his high scoring brother on the ice in Bright Hockey Center didn't exactly put Harvard on the big time sports map. the sad fact is, it's tough to find people outside of New England, Minesota's Iron Range or Madison, Wisconsin who go crazy over two top-notch college hockey players...
...very grateful. It brought back some sad memories, but also many happy ones," said Corazon C. Aquino, who flew in from the Philippines to attend the service...
...talks, the mood in Beirut was not so much sad as fearful. The strike at the Marine compound, like the mortal attack against the U.S. embassy last April, demonstrated that not even a superpower is safe from violence in Lebanon. A former Lebanese Cabinet official argued that such tragedies give the U.S. greater leverage in the country's affairs. "The Americans have over 200 dead. That earns you the right to speak up," he said. "The U.S. has paid the price of admission." If the ticket costs this much, Washington-and the American people-may eventually decide that attendance...
...strategies may indeed defy countermeasures. But although murder is a constant worry in Lebanon, precautions can be taken. Mats of steel spikes block the road to the Lebanese presidential palace, while huge stones and chunks of concrete form an inelegant but effective shield around the French embassy. In a sad irony, the Marines recently helped build two rows of heavily reinforced steel guardrails around the British embassy, where U.S. diplomats are temporarily housed...