Word: backyard
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...face facts. Notwithstanding the indignant cries of environmental destruction and destroyed parkland, most of the outrage boils down to the fact that opponents don't want something big and ugly in Cambridge. A "not in my backyard" attitude may score political points, but it does not accomplish solutions or work toward a meaningful compromise...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The Harvard women's hockey team continued its newfound winning ways this weekend, defeating Princeton, 3-2, in the Tigers' own backyard...
...park in Phoenix showed me how to make a home out of cardboard boxes. Not a home, exactly, but something like a backyard playhouse built by an ingenious child. The cardboard boxes interlocked, and the shelter, secret and cozy, kept out the cold of the Arizona night. The man, named Ernest, had once been an engineer at the Boeing...
When your backyard becomes a war zone, you might grow angry, throw tantrums or call your Congressperson. Or you might even, like the Drug Policy Foundation and the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project, file multi-million dollar lawsuits against William Bennett and his czarist policies. Whatever the gains of troop employment (insignificant by many accounts), the government cannot afford to create this unnecessary hostility towards its assault on drugs...
Thus character has become the central issue in Minnesota, where Republican Jon Grunseth is trying to unseat Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich. Earlier this month, two women came forth with affidavits charging that Grunseth had encouraged them to remove their bathing suits and skinny-dip with him at his backyard pool at a July Fourth party in 1981. The women were 13 and 14 at the time. Insisting that the event never occurred, Grunseth called Perpich a "supreme liar" for denying that he had put the women up to making the charge...