Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dictator, the choice between good and evil does not come up once in a lifetime, but dozens of times each day. When we near the end of our lives, if we are lucky enough to live as long as Jiang and Mandela, it is unlikely that thousands will converge upon Harvard Yard to bless us or to curse...
...your turn to run. Or else, many years from now, faced with five letters from various Harvard auspices asking for money, and reflecting upon all that was right with Harvard, but also all that was wrong, you will be an alum who never took a stand, who not once made the commitment to change Harvard for the better on behalf of those around you, and those yet to come...
Romano says his union regularly engages in deferment contracts with independent filmmakers. Such an agreement entitles workers to low wages and benefits with the understanding that they will be fully compensated upon the successful completion of a project--the signing on of a big studio...
Mister President, we accept this great honour bestowed upon us today as a symbol of how South African and the United States, Africa and the West, the developing and the developed world, are reaching out and joining hands as partners in building a world order that equally benefits all nations and people of the world...
...DRAMATIC GESTURE] Upon discovering that he has killed his father and slept with his mother, he blinds himself...