Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took the oldest rugby club in North America 112 years to cop its first title, but with the exposure of the nationals and increasing support from the Department of Athletics, club members hope the next crown will come a little sooner...
...hundreds of thousands of students across America and around the world, we convinced them that there was no way to combine a profession, a career and a family with a contribution to political change. They believed us and made an uneasy peace with the system. Sooner than we, they realized that they would have to earn their way after graduation, and they returned to their books, their exams, and graduate school. We left them, at most, with a bad conscience, but without a clue about what to do with their lives and knowledge...
Herrnstein's goal in the course is to look at crime at every level from the microscopic thoughts of an individual to view-points as globally social as possible. "At the end of the course we conclude that a person's individual behavior does say something about their actions. Sooner or later a decision to commit a crime boils down to an individual's choice and their behavior on that choice...
...Cabinet enjoyed a singularly inauspicious debut. No sooner were the assignments announced than Berri refused to have any part of them. Jumblatt decided that he would not join until Berri's grievances were answered. Apparently in sympathy for his father-in-law, ex-President Suleiman Franjieh, who was overlooked in the new Cabinet, Interior Minister-elect Abdullah Rassi also declined to attend the Cabinet's first meeting...
...sooner had Mao done so than the boy took a healthy bite out of it, then happily chirped, "Oh, thank you, Granduncle...