Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translate into commitment in the future. The referendum in March demonstrated there was no strong sentiment in any direction toward the new plan. Think about it: 42 percent of the campus refused to spare 30 seconds to cast ballot in a vote which spanned three days, six meals and countless trips back and forth across the dining hall. And equally worrisome: a government structure which will attempt to represent the concerns of thousands of Harvard students in the coming years was designed, shaped and finalized by perhaps twenty...
...business that depends heavily on credit (a typical Kansas wheat farmer borrows about $75,000 a year just to plant and fertilize his crop), the combination of declining income and high interest rates is pushing countless farmers toward bankruptcy. Total farm debt has sharply risen (see chart); it now is about 13 times as high as this year's projected total income. Where farmers normally estimated their annual interest expense at about 11 % of their costs, they now have to set aside more than 20%. Some big operators with expensive equipment are paying as much...
...graphically described the joys and horrors of narcotics, life on the streets, and, ten years before the punks, the general decay of society. The music was fresh--an amalgam of raw, sometimes un-melodic guitar solos and John Cale's imaginative violin in tunes so unorthodox they assaulted listeners. Countless punk and new wave bands of the 70s drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground which--after a four-year existence and a few classic tracks like "Sweet Jane" and "Waiting for the Man"--called it quits...
AFTER MORE than 50 meetings, hundreds of hours, countless headaches and many consultations and confrontations, the constitution for the Undergraduate Council will finally go to the student body for approval next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Why did it take so long, and why would anyone want to put in that much time and effort for a six-page document? What is it, what will it change, and why should anyone bother to vote, much less vote for it? I have heard these questions since I first began working on the constitution last spring. The Council's structure and its difference...
...last summer, Johnson put in countless hours, training and strengthening himself, and at the same time developing a more released stretched out style...