Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though a servicing mission would be pricey, it would also be worth it. Hubble’s three previous servicing missions have not only restored the telescope’s ability to stay in orbit, they have added additional capabilities and instruments, bringing about a bumper crop of new scientific discoveries in their wakes. Servicing mission number four was to be no different, but now the add-ons planned for Hubble will be grounded forever...
...Soviet Union. The entrance at 550 Mass. Ave. in Central Square—right beside the Cambridge Business Center—is marked only by a sign and a black door with peeling numbers. The door is set back from the street in an entryway covered by old bumper stickers and graffiti that includes the opaque message, “AR YU REDI FOR DH REVOLUSION?” An issue of People’s Weekly World in the mailbox is several weeks...
Pork-barrel politics is one thing when the federal government is running surplus a la Bill Clinton. But now that the country is facing a huge and dangerous budget deficit, Congress still passed an omnibus spending bill filled to the brim with gratuitous appropriations. In the wake of another bumper crop of cash for the unnecessary to the absurd in pet Congressional districts, some belt-tightening has to happen somewhere. Congress’ latest bright idea? Cut Pell Grants to poor college kids to make up some of the difference...
Indeed, with Harvard’s bumper crop of plaudits rolling in, it seems Yale’s status as a safety school for kids who didn’t have the scores, the grades or the clean arrest record to get into Harvard is becoming even more obvious. The Times Higher Education Supplement just ranked Harvard the best university in the world. Continuing to sow the seeds of mediocrity, Yale scored, you know, a respectable eighth. Even Stanford, famous for resembling the world’s biggest Taco Bell, managed to score higher...
SELF-HATE Kerryhatersforkerry.com lampooned Kerry's tepid charisma. Sample bumper sticker: HE'LL FLIP-FLOP...