Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know how this gap can be bridged. I want to thank the courageous person who cried out. "We love you. Doctor," for that was a step in the right direction, a recognition of our responsibility as human beings. Perhaps the essence of what Robert Coles wishes to tell us is that responsibility exists, and that in exercising it we can bridge the gaps that separate us. He asks us to take on the challenge of being human, but more than that he takes it on himself by making himself vulnerable and sharing his journey with us. It is his personal...
...Thank you for your consideration. Yours truly. John M. Wood
...later I left, still wishing I had made the cut, but no longer attaching quite the importance to it. The room and its people had worked their magic, helped me out, and given me advice. But most importantly, they were there when I needed them, and for this I thank them. Jonathan Engel...
...such a scheme would probably be prohibitive. It is as though the nation were being asked to buy an extremely expensive insurance policy with very small print warning that it might never pay off. For another, most members of Congress are sure to howl, "Not in my backyard, thank you!" The skinny Dense Pack basing mode, like the Race Track and the Shell Game and 29 others before it, is an accommodation to the hard fact that any large-scale MX scheme is subject to this double jeopardy. Political objections could, and should, be overcome if the weapon were truly...
...bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan is hard cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest, $150 per couple. For $18,000, the hall provided the Takahashis with food, invitations, thank-you notes, photographs, kimono and formal wear. The 5-ft. wedding cake, however, was cardboard, except for the bride's traditional slice...