Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the people at the MTA have a sick sense of humor, but they're probably just incompetent and out of touch. After all, MTA executives don't have to ride the subway--chauffeured cars transport them to work and back. Thus, MTA fails to institute simpler and more cost effective ways of improving the subways, like adding more trains during rush hour, fixing broken air conditioning systems and keeping stations and trains cleaner...
...line catalog can be accessed from the comfort of one's dorm room with the touch of a button (http://www.digitas.harvard.edu...
Bennett shared his charges' interest in touch football, beer and especially rock music. (He once stopped traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike when he noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that...
Outlook: The Big Red rode the coattails of its stud running back Chad Levitt (1,428 yards, 13 touch-downs) to a stellar Ancient Eight record last season. Cornell scored more than 20 points in eight games last year and more than 27 points five times. However, the Big Red has lost half of its starters, including quarterback Steve Joyce, and the team appears vulnerable defensively...
...presentation. Every afternoon we see TV shows offering nothing approaching discourse but instead ersatz therapy sessions in which the guests discuss how they feel about abuse, betrayal, incest, the behavior of their children or parents. Prime-time newsmagazines offer stories of high or low human drama, stories that "will touch your heart," such as family members coping with loss...