Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another seventy push in from the station to get on. Towards the end of the trip, as your back begins to stick to the disintegrating leather of the old upright seats, the sunrise lights up the outskirts of the miserable border town of Nuevo Laredo, sweltering colorlessly in the semi-desert of Northern Mexico...
...McClelland's wit can be as pure a statement made by line, with line and on the subject of line as Steinberg's. Only he would put a typically cartoon-sketched "California Cheeseburger" on top of a semi-Ionic column, carefully drafted in the most accurate "Architect's Projection" style...
...thing has been changed by the sit-in, and this for the good. The demonstration has indicated that there may be something very wrong with the way in which this university is governed. The tradition of closed, semi-secret Faculty meetings has been forcefully challenged, and must now be defended on rational grounds...
...staff has written to 250 black high schools in the South and to all semi-finalists in the National Achievement Scholarship Prigram, a program for black students...
These and a thousand other truisms or semi-truisms are readily recalled in times of financial trouble to bolster this or that point. But money is also something very simple beyond all those definitions. It is one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country. Money gives its possessor a range of choices, and the way that a nation chooses to handle its money sharply illuminates its character. When the world tumbles into a financial crisis, the problem reflects the deeds and misdeeds of the principal governments, and at least in part...