Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual details of the budget agreement, we are pleased that funds have been allocated for the hiring of 100,000 new teachers but wish that these new instructors could be held to some national standard of competency and money had been allocated to build new schools and refurbish old and decrepit ones...
...Radcliffe RAZA, determined to define our Mexican and Latino roots in the American political and social context, identify ourselves as Chicanos; asserting our individuality, we also declare our conviction that we are unique and distinct as a group and a people. From this collective realization, our aspirations originate. We wish to promote the objectives of Chicanos throughout the entire world, most especially at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. We encourage Harvard and Radcliffe to provide greater opportunities to all Chicano and Latino students as well as faculty and administrators. Together, their inspiring presence will foster the social, moral and intellectual environment...
...however wicked pop culture gets with its self-consciousness, I still think there's a certain wish for sincerity that cuts through. After all, Jerry Maguire is about an agent who finally finds his heart, and its Oscar went to the dancing football player who isn't afraid to get sentimental about the kwan. This pendulum swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts...
...number of speakers followed Rudewick, all of whom voiced a similar message. Adam Strom, a director at the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, said, "I wish I was surprised by this...
...have spent the past few days flipping back and forth mentally between the Clinton-Lewinsky business and a new book by the New Yorker's Philip Gourevitch titled We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda...