Word: booted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bennett also fervently advocates getting tough on casual users, through punishments from boot camp to community service to the loss of driver's licenses and student loans. "In many ways, the casual user is a more significant carrier of problems than the addict," he says. "That person by example often suggests that you can do drugs...
Levine describes IEM as a "boot camp," with a 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. schedule during the week and half-days on Saturdays. Comparing the program to the regular degree programs at the Ed School, Levine says that the degree programs can be compared to West Point for soldiers, while IEM is a war college for generals...
Armed with a bag of apples, he aims his Chevy Suburban through the gates of $ his huge Spanish-style home in McAllen, Texas, and heads north for his ranch in the rangeland. McAllen lies in the Rio Grande valley, just above the Mexican border, but its architectural boot print owes more to Los Angeles than Lonesome Dove. The city is a sprawling network of commercial strips, trailer parks and low-slung shingle-and-stucco developments ringed by citrus groves and cotton fields. If you think this overworked stretch of real estate is an unlikely habitat for Africa's black rhinoceros...
...when Dead Poets Society takes place, prep schools of this type were basically boot camps for male Establishment offspring. They were also essential literary institutions. In those days hardly a month seemed to pass without the publication of some novel recounting a hormonal fire storm in one of these supposedly serene, and unquestionably enviable,settings. As traditional private schools changed, the fictional form they spawned fell into disuse, and, frankly, that engenders no deep sense of loss. All that quivering sensitivity! All that earnest soul-searching! All that whining about absent and misunderstanding parents, present and misunderstanding trigonometry teachers...
Donovan was the Crimson's most versatile player this year, chipping in as a second-line midfielder as well as a long-stick middie, and handling the face-off duties to boot. Donovan led Harvard in ground balls with...