Word: destroyed
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...consumer prices and infuriate the U.S. His seven-party coalition has surprised many by conquering two of the unscalable peaks in Japanese politics: opening the rice market and passing laws to reform the electoral system. What some in Washington fear is that taking too tough a line might destroy Hosokawa's fragile hold on power...
Woman-dissing: We now see some retaliatory rounds targeted at female ruthlessness at the office -- in the movie Mrs. Doubtfire (ruthless careerist mom keeps admirable father from his children); in Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure (ruthless careerist executive sexually harasses male subordinate and tries to destroy his career); in Ron Howard's new movie, The Paper (ruthless big-city tabloid editor played by Glenn Close...
Radcliffe was formed initially in an attempt to give women a Harvard education. Along the way, it grew and adapted to provide women with seminars, programs and externships that Harvard could not, or would not provide. Allowing it to be absorbed into the massive bulk to Harvard would destroy what it symbolizes, and would serve only to reinforce the notion that women, in order to succeed at Harvard/Radcliffe, must learn to be "one of the boys...
...censoring speech on campus in an attempt to "remedy and eliminate [what could be] a hostile environment," Silverglate said that "academic freedom would be destroy...
...sting. On Friday night, May 3, 1985, the two men told each other over the phone, with only two Crimson reporters as witnesses, that they would take over the Harvard Magazine building at 7 Ware St. at midnight. They said over the phone that they would destroy or copy files belonging to publisher Alan G. Fein, and that they would use another student to deactivate the building's alarm...