Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the bleak outlook for public schools, civic spirit is running high in Philadelphia if you measure it another way. Thanks to a $160 million package of public financing approved by the state legislature in February, the Eagles and Phillies will soon get new stadiums. Across the state in Pittsburgh, where the public schools anticipate a $30 million shortfall in the next budget, the Pirates and Steelers will also get new homes, with the state kicking in $160 million toward the cost...
...furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time. The world of the early 1950s was still a little punch-drunk from World War II, which had ended less than a decade before. Everything was changing. Great old powers were falling, virile new ones were rising, and the huge, poor mass of Asia and Africa was stirring...
Even though a community-improving agenda willbe the focus of the city's millennium celebration,Boston will keep a little of the fete spirit for2000...
...spirit of collaboration that many say he has introduced has cost the University strong, unified leadership. Rudenstine's tenure will probably be remembered for the role others played in formulating policy, rather than for what he himself accomplished...
...this spirit, we ask that you meet...[and] discuss a timeline and strategy for the implementation of a single outcome: that all employees of Harvard University, in all of its faculties and schools, including subcontracted workers, earn a minimum of $10 per hour," the letter reads...