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Word: told (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States and abroad. I can attest to the grade inflation here; the exact same A- paper at Harvard received a 69 percent at a university overseas. I worked extremely hard on the paper, which is why I was rewarded with an A-. The professor at the institution abroad told me my paper was unoriginal and boring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...shot and we could have been down here patting each other on the heads," said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan. "I told them in the timeout that it would be hard to get the shot off in that short corner...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men's Basketball Loses to B.U. in Final Second | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...clear the Saudi bin Laden money is being put to good use here," then-Harvard spokesperson Alex Hupp told Time Magazine...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Foreign Donors Swell Harvard's Coffers | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...McCain and Bush running neck-and-neck in the Arizona polls, it was left to the other four candidates to divide the also-ran spoils - Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes by trumpeting their conservative credentials, and Orrin Hatch by emphasizing his experience. Clearly, though, some pollster has told all the Republican hopefuls that congeniality is the flavor of the month, and their affability was at times almost comical - Forbes told Bush to call him "Steve," McCain told the Texas governor to call him "John," then later complained of not knowing whether to call Bush "George" or "W." Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call This a Debate? GOP Hopefuls Have a Love-In | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...international business and legal executives in London. The conclusions from the conference, organized to address issues affecting international commerce, led the director of the FBI's national infrastructure center to dire postulations. "Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war," he told Reuters. Internet crime, he added, is spreading rapidly and will affect everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In England, Much Ado About Nothing Much | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

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