Word: damper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is already an unprecedented, unpredictable New Year's and we did not want to take chances with public safety," said Seattle mayor Paul Schell, announcing that the city has canceled a huge celebration planned for the area surrounding the Space Needle. The Y2K threat has also put a damper on a half-day celebration planned in Philadelphia, in which citizens will follow Mayor Ed Rendell to a different celebratory site each hour. Although that event is going ahead as planned, thousands have canceled - including nearly half of the 1,000 couples expected to participate in a mass wedding...
...site also criticizes the school for its large class sizes, stringent Core requirements and policies that put "a damper on social life...
...News & World Report ranks Harvard third after six years in the top spot, bruising egos and putting a damper on traditional cries of "safety school" during the year's Harvard-Yale Game. Students spend the academic year denying the validity of such rankings but seem pleased when the College returns to the top of the charts the next year...
...April 9, 1999, the Quincy House Bulletin, Q TIPS, reminded Quincy students of the rules that rein in the Quincy courtyard. The courtyard rules put a damper on the prospects of fun in the sun, and just as the sun seems to be making its much-ballyhooed return to Harvard. The enforcement of these rules is just another bullet point on the list of the Harvard administration's crackdown on fun. The font of the bulletin's title is consumed in flames, indicative of the heated debate between students who are looking for an outlet for fun and administrators...
...only point with merit, Paul claimed, was the "$5 damper on fun," as he eloquently phrased it. Like a crusty manager giving the nod to a rookie in the fourth inning of a split-squad spring-training game, he turned to me with a $5 bill and a wink of the eye, he growled, "Get out there, T.J., and show 'em how they're wrong...