Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of the Investment Committee decisions to disregard IPAC's recommendations concerning how Cornell should vote on seven of the nine social issues proxies IPAC dealt with last year, the members of IPAC issued a very optimistic third year evaluation at the end of last spring...
...problem, as the chairman of the special task force that drew up the drunk driving legislation stresses, that some of his committee's most potent legislation failed to gain state legislative approval, in spite of King's support. Which is too bad--the measures that the legislature left by the wayside are needed for any program that realistically hopes to curb drunk drivers. They include laws that would...
...news is that, in spite of those impressive numerical gains, Harvard is taking its women less seriously than ever. Consider the following events of the past week alone...
...spite of such skepticism, minimalism has grown rapidly in popularity. Last fall, Glass's visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams...
...spite of the accuracy of the poem's forecast, Sy is still bewildered by his latest crime. He is now doing six to twelve for the attempted murder of his "lady" in Poughkeepsie. After serving time for the robbery conviction, he began to work with delinquent teenagers, but he got into trouble there too, fighting with the authorities over their rough handling of the kids. "They told me: Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady...