Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate to be blunt) they weren't the brightest bunch I've ever met. No way should so many of them have been awarded magna degrees, much less summa honors...
...most arrogant gesture I have seen in my life," says Bill Howell, executive director of the Utah Association of Local Governments. In the town of Kanab, just outside the monument, shops and schools closed in protest, and residents released black balloons into the air. Local artists were more blunt: a popular cartoon circulating for a time pictured the President mutely mooning the state of Utah...
...initiative doesn't really help the poorest Americans toward higher education. "It's a middle-class tax break. That's something different than speaking about loans or scholarships," says David Markowitz of the American Council on Education, which represents 1,600 of the nation's colleges and universities. To blunt that criticism, the Administration last week shifted several billion dollars from HOPE scholarships to low-income Pell Grants, expanding the Pell program by 25 percent...
...brag about. But the company has become a poster boy for a renewed antisweatshop movement. Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney says. But then again, neither is Guess...
...Ruffhouse/Columbia). Tough but tuneful, ready to entertain but unwilling to compromise, this Haitian-American rap trio proved that positive, semipolitical hip-hop could outsell gangsta rap--and alternative rock too. Drawing from reggae and soul, the Fugees created a fresh bicultural sound as bright as the Caribbean and as blunt as New Jersey...