Word: loftier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cited fiscal problems as a reason why this still plagues law students today, explaining how a mountain of debt after college and law school leaves students unable to pursue loftier goals...
Picardi said the directors of next year's fund are likely to set even loftier goals than this year...
Baseball has often regarded itself as loftier than society, and it treats those who have infringed upon its own rules (think Shoeless Joe) more harshly than those who have trespassed against the society that supposedly lies behind the game. Talk all you want about his gambling problems, but I won't see the merit of Rose's exile until Wil Cordero also gets the boot...
Sharma said many students today have loftier aspirations than their parents did, and are not content to work for somebody else...
...presumably less decadent shores of Rhode Island and work at a health clinic. Similarly, over on Lifetime, "the women's network," its three first-ever original programs--the drama Any Day Now and the comedies Maggie and Oh Baby--focus on women who renounce yuppie partnering fantasies for loftier pursuits. In fact, just like Providence, Any Day Now has as one of its protagonists a fortyish Washington refugee who gives up on power brokering and a noncommittal boyfriend to settle in her native town of Birmingham, Ala., and practice civil rights...