Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this country are less serious than those afflicting others, they are also less excusable because the United States has the means to solve them. With millions of Americans malnourished. The government stores enough food to give every family two tons of grain and 40 pounds of dairy products. With countless homeless citizens, contractors level old apartment buildings for office and parking spaces. With rural and inner urban regions completely void of health care facilities, a national medical association projected a 13 percent doctor glut for the 1990s...
...After countless meetings with Harvard Athletic Director Jack Reardon'60 and the Standing Committee on Athletics, in December the team finally earned level-two varsity status. With the department's blessing but not funding, the squad a first varsity season starts this spring...
...unnecessarily, but not inappropriately. For we should always caution ourselves to respect others customs even in the least offensive circumstances. Flagrant intrusions happen infrequently and must be monitored. Yet even non-malicious inconveniences should be carefully avoided and sympathetically addressed. In a world that has surrendered to prejudices of countless ugly forms, the Harvard community, in particular, has every means and motivation to vigilantly honor its members' unalienable rights. Ellen Resnick...
Most days are whiled away staring at TV, smoking cigarettes, drinking countless cups of coffee and dredging up new stories to recycle. "You start running out of lies to tell," says Bob Wills, a three-decade river veteran and captain of the Ann Blessey. To pass the frozen hours. Wills and his two-man crew enjoy a friendly game of poker, with a nickel limit on raises. Over on the White Dawn, gambling is not allowed. Nevertheless, the crew has worn out three decks of cards playing no-stakes spades. Deckhand Tommy Kelly, 36, from rural Sugar Tree, Tenn., feels...
Hurley was everywhere. Defensively, she foiled Colby's attack countless times, while at the other end she stickhandled and passed brilliantly in what Dooley termed "the best game of her life...