Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal of racial and social integration remains important, but altering the Housing lottery is not the way to achieve it. Trying to solve the problem of self-segregation by randomizing the Housing lottery is much like performing open-heart surgery with an axe. The instrument is too blunt to radically change social behavior without interfering with all of the other aspects of house life...
...leaves frayed edges, something like the speed lines in cartoons, but in other paintings, like the impressive Wotan, 1950, nothing moves or is meant to. The big rectangle anchored by one edge to the top of the canvas has a massive presence and thickness of paint, and its blunt authority looks forward to what American minimalists would be doing a generation later...
...miss the breakfast sandwich, the pastrami on a bun, the huge jumbo with "everything" that could feed all of Lowell House--all at prices reasonable enough to justify the absence of fast-food franchises in the Square. The service was lightning-fast, if a little blunt...
Despite the evidence to the contrary, the Verba Committee called for the severing of all ties with ROTC. In so doing, they sent a blunt message to the military to either admit homosexuals or leave Harvard. Yet who are they to make such a decision? Simply being a member of the committee does not automatically make one omniscient, least of all in the field of military affairs...
NAFTA boosters have noted all along that when dollars head south, it means American consumers are enjoying lower prices. Critics deemed this anti- inflationary tonic a bourgeois concern, cold comfort to workers who lost jobs in the process. But 1994 brought a blunt reminder that when we fail to subdue inflation, the Federal Reserve will step in; and its favorite weapon, higher interest rates, will surely cost jobs in the long run. Thus today's gain for consumers may be tomorrow's gain for workers (not to mention the fact that most consumers are workers...