Word: blots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standard disaster-film fare, the science is generally sound. As the movie reveals, the first debris disgorged by a volcano is often a great gray mass of ash. The opaque cloud, made of pulverized rock and glass, falls like concrete snow on land and buildings miles away and may blot out the sun for days...
Last month, as we all know, a student was put on probation by the Administrative Board for the shocking crime of making a prank call to Room 13. If a permanent blot on your transcript can result from pretending to be a first-year during a two-minute utterly inoffensive prank call, we shudder to think what will happen to the three unlucky Matherites...
...makes you long for the time when parents usually gave teachers the benefit of the doubt in disciplinary matters rather than challenging them on the grounds that little Johnny is perfect and any blot on his transcript will keep him out of Harvard. But the situation could get even worse. A constitutional amendment has been drafted guaranteeing that parents' rights to direct the education of their children "shall not be infringed." The amendment, being pushed by the Christian right, is on the November ballot in Colorado, and has been proposed in 28 other states. If it ever becomes...
...suspension stands, the Grille might still eliminate the blot from its record through participation in the Substance Abuse Task Force...
...suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence of its hard-nosed antidrug policy. "We've said time and time again, there's no place for drugs in the U.S. Navy," says Rear Admiral Kendall Pease, the Navy's senior spokesman. "This shows we're serious...