Word: crop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sorts of discrepancies in the treatment of Harvard's athletic teams regularly crop up, according to coaches and players. Of course, athletics department officials say they treat everyone fairly--a claim that would be much more believable if they didn't guard budget figures like Politburo heavies...
Drug money has nothing to do with AWAC's. It's all in the computers. Diplomacy over South American crop-switching is a joke, as peasants can earn more than 10 times as much for planting coca as they can for any other crop. Morganthau, who has blasted government neglect of the narcotics money pyramid, would follow the dollars, and arrest any and everyone at the back counter who tries to take money...
Perhaps even more impressive among this year's turkey crop nationwide, however, was one exceptionally lucky 55-pound...
...generation, carries immense symbolic power. "The fact that God continues to be thought of as a male God means people begin to equate power with maleness," says the Rev. Joan Campbell, the first clergywoman to be chief executive of the National Council of Churches. When noninclusive words crop up during Mass, asserts Sister Francis Bernard O'Connor of the University of Notre Dame, women "sit there and say, Why am I here?" She argues that "God does not have gender, and there are a number of ways God can be addressed without calling...
...Cadets' lone triumph--a Corey Braddock victory in the 200 breaststroke--wasn't enough to stop the Crimson machine. With nine returning seniors and a promising crop of recruits, the aquamen promise to keep things toast down at Blodgett Pool...