Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulletin board in the back of Steve's Ice Cream there is a copy of a letter that owner Steve Herrell sent recently to a customer who complained of bad service and demanded two free sundaes. It notes that copies have been sent to the To-Whom-It-May-Concern Manager, the Easter-Egg-Hunt Manager, the Hot-Fudge Manager, among others...
...Members of our organization, including myself, spent hours of their time putting up flyers announcing the event, as is customary for any organization to do. Within one day, I observed that more than half of these flyers had been ripped down, even from such places as the Freshman Union Bulletin board and the Pusey Library fence. The number of flyers intact continued to decrease from day to day. The incident finally inciting me to protest this harrassment was the complete defacement of the section of the fence we had painted--by two offensive mockeries of the event: "Necrophiliac Thursday" & "Child...
...hour, v. the 415 human babies born each 60 minutes. An estimated 60% of the 70 million American households own pets-including 350 million fish, 22 million birds and 8 million horses-and nearly 30% of these families have more than one. No less a journal than the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has urgently advocated zero population growth for pets. Otherwise, in dark moments one can envision a vast, real-life re-enactment of George Orwell's Animal Farm, with all the captive creatures, from apes to zebras, dispossessing their patrons and decreeing: "Whatever goes upon two legs...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists proposes as a next step higher licensing fees and fines for violations of leash laws, to "encourage more responsible pet ownership"; the added revenue would go to sterilization clinics. The authors also advocate a tax on pet food-1% would yield $25 million a year-to be used, for example, to finance shelters for abandoned or unwanted pets and underwrite educational programs. Pet lovers have also urged the creation of compulsory high school courses and adult seminars in animal behavior...
Members of the association deplored what they called harassment by members of the Harvard community. One member called the removal of posters from approved bulletin boards a "flagrant abuse of civil freedom." He also cited the defacement of a "Gay Wednesday" sign on the Pusey Library fence with the words "Necrophiliac Thursday" and "Child Molester Friday...