Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yohe continues to impress all with his ability both to run and to throw the football. Playing in only his third game in a varsity uniform and starting for the very first time, he gained 120 yards on the ground and another 106 by air Saturday...
...while the Crimson's opponents have come up dry--with the exception of Vermont, which scored twice Saturday--Harvard's goal production continues to impress...
Things are not so simple in liberal arts land. To get trapped in the GPA inferno, you typically have something original and interesting enough to say on exams and papers to get the grader flustered, but you are not thorough enough to impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...
...grow. I cannot allow my people to suffer more. For the banks, it is a matter of being able to tell their stockholders that they will get their money back. But in our case it's a question of whether our people will have enough to eat. I will impress upon the banks that this is a different kind of government from that of Marcos, and we expect different treatment...
...mystery and suspense surrounding the meeting were enough to impress even faithful viewers of the CBS show Murder, She Wrote. For 9 1/2 hours last week the network's 14 directors locked themselves away in 35th-floor chambers at the Manhattan headquarters building, which has come to be known as Black Rock. Their agenda amounted to nothing less than a shoot-out over the future of a communications giant that has been bludgeoned by takeover bids and internal dissension for much of the past 20 months...