Word: upon
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...brought some of the difficulty upon itself...
...have all often been too busy, focused upon our own desires and obligations, to stop and listen to the voices from the walls and lintels of the Yard in the last four years, too busy to acknowledge the presence of the ghosts in our Harvard lives, those spirits who have influenced us and everyone around us. But Commencement in the magic year 2000 is as good a time as any for administrators and students alike to stop and listen to the voices of the Yard and to acknowledge the influence of Harvard's ghosts. Perhaps they will serve...
...week later, with James' family, they announced they had something interesting to tell James' parents. James' mother was hardly surprised. She had suspected the plan immediately upon hearing the couple was visiting Alisa's family. She told them she had already decided to give her blessing...
...very important for [Harvard] to remember that they do have neighbors and that the neighbors want a certain quality of life--unchecked growth and development can impinge upon that," Demakis says...
Regarding China's cultural revolution, for example: It took time for the truth to catch up with the fatuous Maoist story line, much accepted at the time by American and European leftists, who projected their own social fantasies upon Mao's monstrously destructive project. It is important to know what really happened in China during those years...