Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of harsh winds and temperature hovering around the 40- degree mark. Soho coach Peter Kelley said the team's offensive strategy was. "To come out throwing...
Playing before a crowd of more than 300, the Harvard freshman football team defeated a fired-up Princeton squad, 13-6, last Saturday in spite of a chilling wind and sloppy playing conditions...
Thomas Selover in his letter to The Crimson (October 24) compares Rev. Sun Myung Moon to Jesus Christ and states that the Unification Church will live on through the ages. unleashing new vitality, in spite of present-day persecution...
...faces serious obstacles. Not only must the country be able to train the millions of skilled workers and technicians who will be needed in its plants and factories, but it must also be able to meet its loan obligations over the long term. That may not be easy. In spite of a commitment to a balanced budget for 1981, the country is expected to wind up with a deficit of perhaps as much as $3 billion by year's end. Though China's oil reserves are thought to be enormous, production capacity is already severely strained...
...White House has been placed under the supervision of one of his top aides, Michael Deaver. Deaver foresees a two-pronged effort: first, to promote successful private-sector models of social service. Reagan cited a Philadelphia ghetto shelter for 500 street youths founded by David and Falaka Fattah. In spite of losing some federal funding, Falaka Fattah is resolute: "We didn't start with Government money. We're going on." The Administration further intends to help eliminate any bureaucratic impediments to voluntarism. As Reagan noted in last week's speech, "Mothers and grandmothers have been taking care...