Word: unkept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affection between two persons of the same gender is just as acceptable as it is between persons of the opposite sex. Until I can walk through the Yard hand-in-hand with another man without fear of physical violence or verbal abuse, the promise of tolerance at Harvard is unkept...
...short story might be apt for the rookie whose only appearance in a big league box score comes at the tag end of a lost season. A sonnet would be fitting commemoration for those human meteors who flash across the big league sky and then flame out, their promise unkept. My four graybeard survivors, of course, deserve nothing less than full-length novels, sprawling Victorian epics that carry them from apple-cheeked anticipation to adult acclaim to the agonies of aging abilities...
During the Harvard-Brown football game in Providence this year, football Coach Joe Restic and the football managers decided to move the players halftime resting room from under the stadium (which was unkept) to their changing room across the street (which included a number of amenities). It didn't quite work...
...Black student groups involved in the protest--the Black Action Movement (BAM) and the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR)--are demanding that the university follow through on its unkept 1970 promise to increase Black enrollment to 10 percent. Blacks currently compose about 6 percent of the student body...
Thanks in part to his computers, Sununu was soon able to deliver on a traditionally unkept campaign promise: he balanced the state budget without new taxes. Using financial analysis software programs to enforce strict fiscal discipline, Sununu turned the $41 million deficit he inherited in 1982 into a record $47.8 million surplus last year. He also streamlined the flow of budgetary data and reorganized New Hampshire's financial reporting systems so that records of all revenue and expenditures were channeled into the state's big IBM mainframe computer. Loading data from the mainframe into desktop machines and analyzing the numbers...