Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seton says he is tired of hearing that the council doesn't matter to students' undergraduate experiences. It's become popular to dump on the council, he says, but in reality it is an effective presence on campus...
...your company apart. Specifically, your employees are sick of working for free. How do keep morale up without actually paying wages? A) Promise to distribute even more non-existent stock options; B) Give them all a business cards and a "Chief (blank) Officer" title; C) Beer; D) Screw it. Dump those deadweights and poster the campus, advertising your new "comp...
QUESTION 8: These days, no one is in it for the long haul. A smart, enterprising, Harvard-educated Internet startup founder like yourself has a bright future. What is your exit strategy? A) Corporate buy-out. Earn a six-figure salary as CEO, hire a manager, dump your equity and spend the rest of your days playing Microsoft Golf 2000; B) IPO. Drum up hype, watch your stock price sky rocket, dump your equity and move to Vegas; C) Consolidate ownership. Convince your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most...
...that's just the relatively benign municipal solid waste. Each year American industries belch, pump and dump more than 2.5 billion lbs. of really nasty stuff--like lead compounds, chromium, ammonia and organic solvents--into the air, water and ground. That's about 400 Olympic poolfuls of toxic waste...
...exist--and we are stripping and poisoning it, depriving it of its ability to sustain life. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once predicted that unless we--not the editorial or royal we but the universal we--changed our ways and stopped treating the oceans as an infinite resource and a bottomless dump, there would someday come a moment of no recovery. Overwhelmed at last, the resilient seas would no longer be able to cleanse or restock themselves. From that moment on, the oceans--and with them nearly all life on earth--would embark upon a slow, irreversible descent into the darkness...