Word: takings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City will take out a 10-year, $6.4 million loan to buy the building housing a neighborhood clinic affiliated with Cambridge Hospital...
...look back at the weekend, I can only take solace in two things. One is that I had a good time at the game. The other is that, in the middle of the game, when Derek Bok smugly walked down the sidelines in front of the Harvard fans and was roundly cheered, I remembered myself enough to boo and give him the finger...
Chinese classes are incredible; we take two hours of grammar, two hours of writing and two hours of conversation every day. But here, all that work doesn't feel academic at all, because we use it every day. It's like taking an ongoing course on survival while you are out camping in the woods...
Racism in the crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least until such racial match-ups cease to be novelties...
...week Thatcher announced that she would not stand for a fifth consecutive term in office. She told the London weekly Sunday Correspondent she would lead the Conservative Party into the next election, likely to be held in 1991, but after that there "will be plenty of people who can take over...