Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fiscal Crisis at Harvard; Buy a Cookie," read a banner, while volunteers distributed a pamphlet that included a recipe for "Al's Yummy Provostial Pie," including "[One ounce of] ordinary human decency...
...Science Center writing an e-mail of my own when I happened to glance at the screen of an acquaintance beside me and was not suprised to see that he had spent the last 15 minutes constructing a happy face out of lower case i's. The banner message, addressed to his girlfriend, Julie, read "'Tis the east, and Julie is the sun." Shakespeare no doubt turned in his grave as my counterpart sent the epistle and then glanced at me doubtfully to ask if I thought the note was too long...
...There was nothing to prevent Shaq from pulling out a Pepsi in the locker room during an on-camera interview," said a Coca-Cola spokesman. In fact, that's almost what O'Neal did at the press conference announcing his $123 million contract with the Lakers. With a Reebok banner behind him (for another Shaq sponsor), O'Neal told the media all he wanted to do after signing his contract was, "Have fun and drink Pepsi." The incident highlights the hotter sponsor wars in professional sports lately, with players, leagues and teams each looking for a cut of the financial...
...There was nothing to prevent Shaq from pulling out a Pepsi in the locker room during an on-camera interview," said a Coca-Cola spokesman. In fact, that's almost what O'Neal did at the press conference announcing his $123 million contract with the Lakers. With a Reebok banner behind him (for another Shaq sponsor), O'Neal told the media all he wanted to do after signing his contract was, "Have fun and drink Pepsi." The incident highlights the hotter sponsor wars in professional sports lately, with players, leagues and teams each looking for a cut of the financial...
Terrorism still ranks pretty near the bottom of genuine threats to Americans. So why are politicians lining up under the banner of fighting terrorism to give police more authority to invade every citizen's already much abused privacy? America has experienced this kind of legislative reaction before, and never with good results. In John Adams' day, hysteria over possible war with France produced the oppressive Alien and Sedition Acts. And in Harry Truman's day, hysteria over communism led to an ugly series of loyalty measures that launched the nation on a tortured search for demons. JOHN W. CHUCKMAN Manotick...