Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, a movement to support this coalition may be starting. Apparently students at Yale and Princeton are expressing interest as well, although I'd bet that their interest stems from polite false humility and that they won't be too active in the crusade to dump the rankings. Although one of the organizers of the Stanford coalition denies that this movement stems from "sour grapes," it's pretty clear that bitter envy is the driving force behind the effort to reform the rankings. Had Stanford been ranked number one, no one from Stanford would be whining...
...insult ever cleared up a toxic waste dump or helped an elderly person," he added...
...time is ripe to dump on Cirque du Soleil. This Montreal-based troupe has been an item of import chic since 1987, when it began touring the U.S. with a show called Le Cirque Reinvente. The Cirque style--circus acts (no animals, just humans) with the gloss of stage magic and a mysterioso musical score--is no longer an automatic astonishment; form has congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there...
...hookahs" and portable air compressors, Philippine divers are hunting down big reef fish, stunning them with cyanide and hauling them to the surface alive. The practice allows traders to supply Chinese restaurants with the live fish their affluent customers covet. Meanwhile, the 330,000 lbs. of cyanide the divers dump onto living corals each year is poisoning the reefs...
Clinton has lately talked of enacting some kind of stopgap legislation to keep Medicare solvent beyond 2001, which now looms as the year of bankruptcy, and then appointing a bipartisan commission to suggest long-term solutions. That sounds distressingly like a cop-out, a way to dump the problem into the lap of Clinton's successor...