Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defending his proposal before the Faculty, Ozment observed rightly that the Administrative Board has the power to compensate for low marks "when circumstances rather than ability" influence a student's performance. Mistakes are part of life, and a consistently solid record will balance a few blemishes, the dean added. His arguments were apparently convincing...
Defending his proposal before the faculty. Ozment observed rightly that the Administrative Board has the power to compensate for low marks "when circumstances rather than ability" influence a student's performance. Mistakes are part of life, and a consistently solid record will balance a few blemishes, the dean added. His arguments were apparently convincing...
Jimmy Lewis, owner of Elite Limousine Service in Boston, says applicants there must wear "a three-piece black suit, a sharp white collar, a solid black tie, and very well polished black shoe s. They must have short hair, preferably not have a beard or moustache, and their suit must be very, very, sharp." While the may sound like an awful lot of dressing up. Lewis says that this is basically what a chauffeur wears...
Gretzky fairly boasts that he "never touches a stick" in the off-season, but does not account for the solid summer he spent rounding up the children of Brantford to practice breakaways on lone goalies in an indoor ice rink, using tennis balls. "I'm still not that good on breakaways, but I'm four times better than I used to be." The truth is, shinny games tempt him. Meanwhile Bird is embarrassed to admit, "Last summer I caught myself shooting around for five hours. I thought, 'What's wrong with me?' It's like I get this guilty feeling...
...Warsaw Pact as solid as it seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...