Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of his seeming amiability, Sadat was not a gregarious man and had few intimate friends. One of them, wealthy Egyptian Contractor Osman Ahmed Osman, recalls that Sadat would remain with him "for two or three hours without saying a word, just chewing his pipe and thinking." A favorite Sadat pastime was a contemplative afternoon walk along the Nile near one of his ten residences...
...spite of the several animal research bills pending before Congress, including the well-supported Research Modernization Act, Harvard researchers seem most concerned by activity at the state level to restrict the use of pound animals. "Most of the concern seems to be with dogs and particularly so-called pound animals," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology...
...spite of everything, the brothers love each other and their parents. They decide that their late father, a machinist, was "a great man" and take comfort from this belief. One says: "We're all separated, we brothers, and hardly know what one another is doing, and yet that doesn't matter, because we know one another in a bigger way, which keeps us together. Isn't that so?" Daniel answers, "Yes." And this stark, moving novel echoes that affirmative. -By Paul Gray
...continued stagnation issue. The purpose behind the requests for appointed voting representatives is to ensure that each group will have a strong voice in the allotment of funding from the proposed student council. If the council or Dean of Students Archive C. Epps III were to restrict funds in spite of minority representatives, then minorities would recognize appointed representatives as useless and would have to attempt other means of gaining student money...
...page.) He will even tell you he doesn't mind the nickname. "I have never been sure," he will tell you, "whether the roach they referred to was something you held in a clip or something you stepped on." And he will note with some amusement that, in spite of many efforts and even a contest held expressly for the purpose of creating one, "no one has ever come up with a successful penultimate line for the Bernie Krieger song...