Word: toils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Company, legislation asking the College to officially replace the term "freshman" with the term "first-year," and legislation demanding Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 prevent Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students from being commissioned in Harvard Yard during Commencement Week. And what came of all this toil? Absolutely nothing. The University still holds assets in Shell, we still have a "Freshman" Dean's Office, and ROTC students are still being commissioned in the Yard...
...then. The bill would allow the president to veto specific spending programs approved by Congress, giving the president unprecedented power. A House-Senate conference is expected to formally adopt the bill next week. Senator Dan Coats, a proponent of the measure said the agreement "culminates seven years of blood, toil, sweat and tears." He adds that "This is a major breakthrough ending a longstanding impasse. It virtually guarantees the Congress will be able to send the president a line-item veto very soon." Senator John McCain acknowledges that the compromise might have some trouble passing through the Senate. He adds...
...emotion noticeably absent from his remarks was regret. He declared, like a stern grandfather admonishing the young, that while all wished the war to come quickly to its close, "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether...
Since the honest, industrious middle class obviously has little concern for the safety of the offices, factories, etc. where they must toil, the Republicans have sunk their teeth into OSHA as well. Many OSHA regulations will be made voluntary, wisely allowing the captains of industry to make the appropriate cost/benefit decisions regarding dangers in the workplace. And some hazards, such as repetitive stress disorders, will be completely off-limits from OSHA regulations...
...toil has yielded dividends. In addition to steadily improving performances every season, the team drove south to Washington, D.C. and Virginia during last year's spring break to compete in a club tournament...