Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unrelated incident at the Law School, the U.S. Army threatened Harvard with a loss of Pentagon research contracts because the Law School does not permit Army recruiting. Harvard joined five other universities in the military's dog house. All six schools have strict non-discrimination policies for encamps recruiting, which the Army says cannot follow because it excludes homosexuals and many disabled people from recruitment drives...
...among freshmen to compare themselves unfavorably with their classmates. "A fairly common problem--one that Harvard freshmen especially have--is the shock of finding you're just one of the crowd," notes Suzanne Vogel, a senior clinical social worker at UHS. "A lot of students come from a top-dog situation and then find they're part of a mob where everyone's been special. We hear a lot of people say they're lost and lonely and feel like nobody--they feel threatened by other students who appear very impressive...
...overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...
...billion pesos a day. Increased capital flight prompted last February's 40% devaluation. But the government immediately undermined the measure with sharp wage hikes that fueled inflation and led to a new run on the peso. López Portillo, who had earlier vowed "to fight like a dog to defend the peso," was thus obliged to decree a second devaluation on Aug. 6. To complicate matters further, the government froze all foreign-currency bank accounts in Mexico, then announced last week that they would be paid off only in pesos at a fixed rate of approximately...
...early summer they had quizzed some 200 people. Then, finally, a break: a handwriting expert matched the printing in the book's message to that of one of the suspects. The police subpoenaed a sock belonging to the suspect and let a trained German shepherd sniff it; the dog was then set loose in a room containing the remains of the real bomb and four replicas. The animal headed straight for the genuine one, and the sock owner's scent. Last week, 91 days after Mother's Day, police arrested their suspect outside his Brooklyn apartment...