Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owners who want to dump their vehicles and collect from their insurance companies can sometimes go directly to a salvage yard for assistance. A Passyunk operator explains how it works: "Say you got a guy who can't keep up the payments on his car. You call me, the junkyard, and I'll tell you to leave it in a parking lot somewhere with the keys, as well as the title for my own protection. I give you a coupla hundred dollars, I sell the parts to a body shop, and they get resold to an insurance company. Meanwhile...
...been extolled by such critics as Camille Paglia and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. In England you can dump on God, Churchill or Prince Charles, but touch Jane Austen and you're toast...
...still remotely possible for Clinton to wake up, send Gergen back to Shields and utter words to that effect. But until he does, the cry from the left will have to be: Don't dump the corpse in our backyard...
Worst of all, the episode lent a cartoonish, surreal quality to Clinton's desperate scramble to reposition himself as a man of the middle rather than the tax-and-spend liberal that a majority of Americans now suspect him to be. While Clinton might have felt compelled to dump Guinier under any circumstances, the move, coming at a time of presidential image overhaul, looked like some kind of Faustian political bargain. Clinton not only dumped an old friend but in doing so also dismissed the views of his folk-hero Attorney General, Janet Reno, and in the same stroke managed...
THIS SPRING, TWO ELIOT HOUSE juniors began publishing Inside Edge, a national magazine whose cover promised articles on "women who love SEX" and "how to dump your girlfriend...