Word: bucket
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...expired and has been held since without charge or trial in the Mikuyu prison near Zomba. In the early years of his detention, Munthali's jailers reportedly applied gasoline to his legs and ignited them, causing injuries that were not treated. Today he shares a single cell -- with a bucket for a toilet -- with some 30 other political prisoners...
...Donald! Ivana was ugly, and she left you, and no one likes you, and you're going to be remembered as a greedy, crooked, exploitative publicity hound when you kick the bucket just like everyone else does...
...course, pedestrian meteorology is a lot like the vice-presidency; in the words of John Nance Gardner, "It ain't worth a bucket of warm spit." Still, the warm weather--however transitory it may turn out to be--defrosted a few minds around campus, shaking some latent thoughts into the fray of public debate. Some hot topics...
...think the program goals are commendable, but I would love to see $100 or $200 million," said Richard A. Ammons, vice president for development. "Fifteen million seems like a drop in the bucket," he added...
...universal truth of the "efficiency-equity tradeoff." In the words of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, any attempt to redistribute the pie results in a smaller pie. Welfare creates perverse incentives not to work and reduces the efficiency of business--the so-called "leaky bucket." Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is fond of calling redistribution a "parasite" on the body of a healthy capitalist economy...