Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose foundations precede the age of Islam guard entry to its valleys...
Despite the widespread publicity for the report, the reaction within the red brick walls of the University appears to be lukewarm...
...brick Hampden jail is a microcosm of the nation's correctional crisis. Constructed when Grover Cleveland was President, it handles offenders with sentences of up to 30 months, many of them for violent crimes. For years Massachusetts prisons have been among the most overcrowded in the country, recently housing 15,000 inmates in space built for 10,000. New facilities lag far behind demand. In 1989 alone, the number of Massachusetts inmates increased by 820. Simply to stay even, the state would have to construct a new large facility every year, an impossible objective. Since 1983 Massachusetts has committed...
...Harvard is the voice of the PC" but unfortunately, the only voice that seems to get acted upon at Harvard is the voice of the author's self-named "PW." Plotz's charge of "PC totalitarianism" is a blatant misrepresentation of the dominant traditionalism that exudes out of every brick at Harvard. When push comes to shove, Harvard protects its own--and "its own" is white, upper middle-class, heterosexual and male...
...still can't figure out how scotch tape can damage a brick wall...