Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have witnessed the cesspool better known as the women's washroom in the Science Center, the Barker Center reading room during flu season, the many generations of dust bunnies lurking in the corners of their own rooms. To the naked and uninformed eye, Harvard may be as sterile as Banana Republic. But how does it hold up to a plate of glossy agar...
Everybody knew that at least some of the IMF?s billions of Russian bailout money would get flushed down the toilet of corruption. Few figured the cesspool ?- or, more accurately, the sewage treatment plant ?- could end up in Manhattan. According to the Wall Street Journal, authorities are investigating whether some $200 million allegedly laundered through the Bank of New York was siphoned off IMF funds loaned to Russia to stave off its financial collapse. It?s happened before - in 1996, Russia?s own central bank (their Fed!) funneled $1.2 billion in IMF money to an offshore holding company, never...
...whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like Bessie Seday, in there." Fixing Bessie's wound required repeated surgery, including the removal of her left buttock and part of her pelvis. "They were washing her," says Lesley Clement, her attorney, "in a damn cesspool...
Concentrate on the District of Columbia, because it is the capital of the world, and it's a cesspool. Things are so bad here that it will take the power and resources of the presidency to get anything done...
...they'll offer you a litany of accomplishments. They'll rave about the council's greater accountability and improved public image. They'll even puff up with pride and refer to themselves as "The New UC." But don't believe the hype. The council is mired in a cesspool of irrelevance, misguided activism and petty infighting...