Word: blight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that this is a visual blight and isnot appropriate," Duehay said. "If you carry thatargument to a logical extreme, you would havesigns everywhere--in residential areas, commercialareas, blinking neon signs everywhere...
This he repeatedly demonstrates with his furiously maintained belief that coffee is loathsome, a blight on mankind. By his own account, he does not simply disdain coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, overturns coffee urns in restaurants. He breaks up a marriage to a beautiful, intelligent and adoring woman because she backslides and drinks the foul stuff. Et, for several hundred pages, some very peculiar cetera...
Most students walking by the Sackler Art Gallery probably haven't notice the bolts on top of the columns in front of the building. But for Philip A. Rizzo, an independent architect in Cambridge, they are "offensive" and an "urban blight" which the University needs to conceal or remove...
Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of America, argues that there are no panaceas for national concerns about the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Nor, he believes, will eventual computer literacy and Net access do much to end the blight of poverty, illegitimacy, rural isolation and urban decay. ``There's always going to be an unequal distribution of income,'' Cooper says. That's probably true, but at the very least, the new technology should unleash all its considerable energies toward the goal of preventing those problems from getting any worse...
Discipline: B+. Harvard's 0-2 start could largely be traced to the familiar disease of stupid penalty-taking, but since that blight receded the Crimson have stayed for the most part out of the penalty box except when necessary...the one exception to that being the unconscionable stick-foul on Martins at Colgate, resulting in a game-misconduct and a one-match suspension...