Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same question I asked Dean Lewis about whether or not college was a selfish period, Henry Rubin, a lecturer on social studies, responded, "Most definitely. [College] is one of the last times that you get the kind of intensive institutional support for guiding you through life choices that will matter to your life chances...Most of all, you haven't yet made the kinds of decisions that `lock' you into any particular course of action...
...school in political science. I'm a social studies concentrator and I'm not sure what I want to do--and though I will stress about this decision, to the point of destroying my conception of college as the good life, the nice thing is that it doesn't matter just...
...next man who tries to force sex would actually leave his mind and snap--snap right out of his socially imposed deafness and hear the word "no" the way it is meant to be heard. Maybe he would realize the woman really doesn't want to have sex, no matter how much he might want her to. It's such a little thing, but it would mean so much...
...during the Gulf War, about 40 were aimed at the Iraqi leader's headquarters, residences, command bunkers and buildings he was expected to visit. Pentagon lawyers had ruled that Saddam was a legal target because he was considered a wartime military commander. But in the end it didn't matter. Saddam and his entire family came through without a scratch...
...Even as defaults eroded profits, the booming economy has allowed some sub-prime borrowers to pay off their loans ahead of schedule. That has reduced income and ruined profit projections in many parts of the industry. Notes Daniel Phillips, chairman of FirstPlus Financial, a Dallas sub-prime lender: "No matter how conservative a lender's assumptions are, no crystal ball allows him to see what may happen...