Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember needing to fill something outfreshman year and it was just a hassle," Yungsays. "There weren't any available...
...sensible perspective on IM athletics, Moore concedes, "It wasn't life or death, but people took it pretty seriously. We were very proud of [our championship]." As for Moore's teammates, though, he recalls that "a few guys who played high school athletics took it more seriously...because they weren't the stars [on other teams], but this was an arena in which they could show their skills...
...should compete again. I have a family of conservative Southern Baptists in rural East Texas, but I told my mom about my stripping because she's a closet liberal. She encouraged me to get a leather jacket and earring in seventh grade when I attended a school where we weren't even allowed to have long hair--so I figured my new hobby wouldn't bother her too much...
...more reason to talk to them now as adults, as friends, in some ways even as peers. We've grown out of our adolescence, and our parents have weathered it. That's why college is a good time to normalize relations, to realize that our parents really weren't so bad after all, and to try to catch up on the years we wasted fighting with one another...
...right side of the political center. In 1997, when he pushed through new curriculum standards, he angered both the right and the left: first rejecting the initial effort as being too full of "mushy" liberal pedagogy, then rejecting the arguments of the religious right that the revised standards weren't tough enough. "I met with him in June 1997, when he was under heavy criticism from the right for not backing what they regarded as tougher, more prescriptive standards," says Ravitch. "He responded very forcefully, and made it clear that he was not going to be bullied. This...