Word: backyarders
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...lucky. And the floor-length windows in Jordan? Just make sure you draw the shades lest the College's residential life Dean Suzy M. Nelson calls the cops on you for the "very indiscreet goings-on" in the privacy of your 125 sqaure-foot bedroom overlooking her backyard...
...yeah, we’re throwing up right now too). But you probably neglect abuses when they’re close to home—domestic abuses, we’ll call them. You just want to go through life neglecting the pile of stegosaurus manure in your own backyard. That’s right: The Harvard Crimson. [1] “But wait!” you snivel. “That’s not even a mascot! That’s just a color!” Yeah, right, and Chris Brown is just Usher with...
...this city can’t attract the momentum that’s going to make this a standalone part of the Harvard campus, it’s going to become a backyard,” said Allston Task Force member John Cusack...
...early-March snowstorm that creamed the Eastern seaboard largely missed Vermont's big skiing areas. But resort operators were delighted nevertheless, because the storm whetted the appetite of all those coastal skiers. The industry calls it the "backyard syndrome," and it can either feed or starve the sport in a given year. The backyard syndrome stipulates that if you can't see snow in your backyard, you won't think of going skiing, whatever the economy. If the flakes are falling, however, you'll get silly for the slopes. "Snow makes skiers act irrationally," says Ralf Garrison, director...
Then came the cars. And the backyard barbecues. And the black-and-white TVs. Ozzy and Harriet, Lucy and Ricky, Leave it to Beaver. In September 1958, Bank of America tested its first 60,000 credit cards (later named Visa) in Fresno, Calif. Within a decade, Americans had signed up for more than 100 million credit cards. Today, the number tops 1 billion. African Americans were able to pull themselves into the middle-class bracket through the social gains of the civil rights movement, though a disproportionate number still live below the poverty line. (Read the 1974 TIME article "America...