Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty administrators had a slight respite from that nagging pain between the eyes this month, however, when Dean Rosovsky announced that he had balanced the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, giving the Faculty its first--albeit tiny--budgetary surplus in seven years...
...Quad was bereft of entering freshmen, the Yard was hopping with activity. Although the ratio of men to women remains out of balance--albeit at a better-than-ever 1.89:1--the ratio of frisbees to prospective registrants there yesterday seemed to approach...
...sacrifices the Steins and eventually she herself make for Elesina. Ivy engineers a divorce, schedules rendezvous for adulterers, sheds the appropriate number of tears at funerals and calmly confronts suicide. The one obstacle she does not foresee is that Elesina, whose egotism and avarice Ivy kindles and nurtures, eventually, albeit belatedly, develops at least an embryonic conscience, making Ivy expendable...
...when he handed in a twelve-page outline for Star Wars in 1973. "I've always been an outsider to the Hollywood types," he explains. "They think I do weirdo films." Even close friends and film-school colleagues thought the idea for Star Wars a little strange-albeit for different reasons. They felt that Lucas should follow American Graffiti with a deep picture, one that had meaning, significance and recondite symbolism...
...critics were strengthened last week by release of a United Nations report, prepared by an international symposium of petroleum experts, that took a much more optimistic line. Oil and natural-gas supplies, declared the U.N. report, "would most probably be available, albeit at a substantially higher cost, not only for the next two or three decades but very likely during the period of transition to the use of renewable energy sources even if this transition should last a hundred years or more." The U.N. experts believe that today's high oil prices will encourage exploration in remote, previously uneconomic...