Word: toward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--A majority of first-year college students consider their bachelor's degree a step toward graduate school, while education rivals business as a job goal, according to a newspaper survey of 900 students in the Class of 1993 at New England colleges...
...might think that marrying dead people is bizarre. But as an occasional feature of life in these parts for longer than anyone can remember, "ghost marriages" are just another relic of ancient China, another relatively harmless superstition for a billion people struggling to jerk themselves toward the 21st century...
Each month's proceeds, $300 to $900, goes toward purchasing more books for Harvard libraries...
...result of a bad screenplay and a poor acting job on the part of Lloyd is a movie which lacks pacing, coherence and emotional depth for its first hour. But as In Country shifts its focus more toward the relationship between Samantha and Emmett, the movie gains a lot of the truth and pathos which was missing from the start...
Antipathy toward Exxon threatens to obscure the fact that it mounted the largest response ever to an oil spill. The effort was like organizing an infantry division from scratch and deploying it in battle within 60 days. At the cleanup's peak, Exxon marshaled more than 1,400 boats, 85 aircraft and 11,300 people. With that mobilization came such daily logistic headaches as providing 200 tons of food and disposing of 1,400 gal. of human waste in a remote and unforgiving environment. "I think Exxon did a hell of a job," says David Usher, whose firm Marine Pollution...