Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government in addressing its own problems. It is perhaps not surprising that President Bush began his term on a cautious, vigilant note. However, even though Bush did offer a desperately needed plan to relieve the debt burdens on Latin American governments, his first four months seemed, on the whole, to be lacking an agenda, reactive rather than active, characterized by weakness and vacillation...
...Dean A.C. Hanford requested that students refrain from additional shenanigans, and students, still chuckling at the whole affair, kept out of further trouble with the councillors...
...There still are Oliver Barret IV's who have grandfathers who give whole buildings to Harvard...and unfortunately there are still very few of them," Bok said. "And the Harvard hockey team still beats everyone in sight...
...said that he saw his roommate from school in China on a television news report about the Beijing protests, and laughed because his roommate is "conservative. You can see the whole country turned around," he joked...
...dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing a 600-word story seemed to be considered a whole week's work." Meyer Berger, the paper's star feature writer and house historian, put the situation in perspective: "Mister Ochs ((Adolph Ochs, publisher from 1896 to 1935)) always liked to have enough people around to cover the story when the Titanic sinks...