Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have so many times in the past, Dartmouth football fans somehow managed to elude campus security Wednesday night, covering the John Harvard statue in the Yard with pale green paint...
...there is another, troubling implication of the universities' practices and their defense of them. Who decides that education of a particular kind is of equal value and should not be bid for? Here is where arrogance comes in. Somehow the 23 members of the overlap group--the Northeastern elite colleges and universities--have already decided who makes up the top level of education, and how much that top education should cost. Do they then have the right to exclude other educators from their cozy arrangment? Do the 60-plus schools under investigation not become the "education establishment...
...abuse of a young daughter by another marriage was deemed not admissible as evidence. The judge thought there was "a fifty-fifty chance" that Foretich was guilty, and gave him unsupervised visitation rights. Defying a court order, Morgan hid her daughter away rather than return her to her father. Somehow Morgan, not her ex-husband, ended up in jail, without a trial, for more than two years...
...majority not only implies that Frank's sterling legislative record somehow excuses his actions, but stubbornly insists that this episode will not damage his effectiveness as an advocate for liberal causes. Whom are they kidding? Becoming an object of ridicule will certainly damage Frank's legitimacy and credibility, as major newspapers like the Boston Globe have pointed out. And every hour Frank spends defending himself is an hour taken away from his time for liberal causes...
...shortages of both faculty office space and storage space for library books. To the observer untrained in the art of bureaucratic thinking, these needs seem more pressing than the shortage of moderately priced hotel rooms in the area. Spence insists that the faculty's needs will be met somehow, but he made no definite provisions for them before proceeding with the hotel plan...