Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parade grounds. Despite government attempts to quiet unrest in the ranks and improve morale by tripling the pay of draftees (from 600 to $1.80 a day), French troops are the lowest paid in Europe. Career officers also complain about low pay and the slow pace of advancement in spite of recent efforts to accelerate promotions...
Gleason said that in spite of repeated requests from the city, Harvard has continued to use the Thorndike name, associated with Nobel-prize winning research on pernicious anemia, for its own research in Beth Israel...
...spite of all the glamor, the adventure of flying on Air Force One and the excitement of receiving phone calls from "The President," Mo Dean has some objections to Washington life. She doesn't like being limited to two drinks per party in order to preserve the sobriety of the Deans' name. She doesn't like being called away from every vacation because there is "Oh, just a little problem at the White House." She doesn't like Watergate...
...least, in terms of effort, commitment, and perhaps most importantly, money. While the Du Bois Institute barely stands on its feet after years of bureaucratic hassling and the Afro-American Studies Department struggles along with at most two tenured professors; while minority admissions drop steadily in spite of the efforts of a handful of ever-dedicated Third World students and diminished commitment from the administration allows fewer students from poor socio-economic conditions admittance; mountains of time and concern are heaped upon an affair with as much relevance to the plight of Black people as what color tie Derek...
...this film. Mrs. Kavarsky is the film's greatest source of acerbic Yiddish wit, with such comments as "You can't pee up my back and make me think it's rain." She is the archetypal yente, always offering advice and sticking her nose in her neighbors' affairs. In spite of this, she remains a likeable character. As much as she pries into others' business--and this is a measure of how Hester Street avoids callous stereotyping--she still has their interests at heart, as demonstrated by her attempts to reconcile Jake and Gitl over their differences...