Word: blights
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers.” Mandatory referendums on town budgets requiring over 3 percent tax increases; “performance-based accounting”—whereby town departments report progress with statistics rather than subjective reports; and a new town ordinance to combat blight were among the Republicans’ promises...
...shame. Of course, those naughty students guilty of rubbing too closely up against one of the infected (or of just living in their dorm) were recommended to do the same. Much like God punished the Egyptians with locusts, the promiscuous students among us shall be met with the blight of scabies. Soon enough, every Harvardian with an irregular patch of skin lined up at UHS, waiting to be examined by the University’s most reputable physicians. Unfortunately, a diagnosis of scabies is traumatic enough without the social stigma. The inevitable questions from roommates (“You hooked...
...whether by signing them to shoe deals or encouraging them to take the jump from high school straight to the NBA or both.But while Vaccaro has plenty of admirers, he has no shortage of critics either, especially in the NCAA. He has been portrayed as a basketball mobster, a blight on the integrity of the game who has brought about the age where NBA hype starts in middle school and teenagers are drawn away from the amateur game by the allure of multimillion shoe deals and signing bonuses.To Vaccaro, the claims of his critics are representative of the hypocrisy...
...commercials anymore, but those saccharine eHarmony ads featuring Natalie Cole tra-la-laing the blight-on-humanity song "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" have been unavoidable the last couple of years. (At your peril, you can check one out here...
...hundreds of seniors in February, the word “thesis” becomes a blight upon social life and mental stability. Sleepless nights are filled with furious typing to close the gap of that last seventy pages. Invitations to another Fox party or Advo initation are quickly passed up in favor of thesis cramming or Facebook-group making. But for Russell I. Krupen ’07, a former Sociology and History joint-concentrator, the all-terrible thesis is no longer a worry.“It was all sort of at once,” says Krupen...