Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never made a personal remark against anyone in this council," Sullivan said in response. "I think those remarks were inappropriate in the City Council and I wish they were not made. That's all I have to say," he said...
...More than 200 law students gathered in Harkness Commons last Thursday night for the much-anticipated season premiere of the hit TV show "L.A. Law." But at least one observer was a little worried about the future of the legal profession when cries of agreement greeted a character's remark that "we don't have time to go around making moral stands...
...phone call, of course, is no guarantee of accuracy. New York magazine inquired whether I had reviewed a manuscript for possible serialization in TIME. Yes, I had; no, we wouldn't. But the item relating this routine transaction attributed a direct quote to me ostensibly delivered to "colleagues." The remark, never uttered, was not checked either with me or with the editor to whom I had reported. Later, the New York Times Book Review picked up the unfounded quote. The news section of the same Sunday edition carried an editors' note pointing out that the original gossip-page item...
...romance with the right has shaped his approach to foreign policy. The President dismissed Democratic complaints that he has been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That remark has several translations, among them: "I don't want the anti-Communist right to accuse me of giving away the store...
Their strategy--to argue that the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service should keep ROTC off campus--proved remark-ably persuasive to council members...