Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first period, Harvard skated circles around Brown's lackadaisical, lackluster lines. The game began to heat up physically as well, with Crimson and Bears skaters exchanging stiff forearms and bone-crushing checks. Harvard's defense continued to dump the puck out of the zone, and Roy came up with several key saves...
With the Bahrain deal in hand, Quasha decided to dump almost everything else. The company owned 1,000 wells and 600 gas-station pumps, all of which helped produce more than $40 million in losses in 1990. Earlier this year, Quasha spun off Harken's debt-laden businesses into separate public companies and then retired as chairman. "I've yet to find a business that's had nothing but successes," says he. "We've obviously had disappointments...
Maybe it is my penance to be buzz-bombed by giant flies while trying innocently to brush my teeth. In AP Bio last year, I had to kill thousands of fruit flies all in the name of science. We used to dump them, along with the blue medium they lived in, into this jar of alcohol called the morgue. Their spirits have come back to haunt...
...sexual harassment, many were left with a conviction that, as with pornography, they know it when they see it. The ugly realities of many American workplaces give the legal language its vividness. There is, for instance, the case of Edith Magee, who worked a shovel and drove a dump truck for the St. Paul, Minn., sewage department. "There was always this implied threat that if they didn't like you, they would use their authority to get you in trouble," she says of her supervisors. Her employer settled her case for $75,000 but denied any wrongdoing. "I knew when...
...adoptions by foreigners until it formulates new procedures; it is not expected to begin again soon. Few Third World countries are likely to follow suit. Ending foreign adoptions would not necessarily stop the buying and stealing of babies. It would merely, as one Sri Lankan lawyer points out, dump thousands more orphans and abandoned children into the care of the state -- a burden that neither Sri Lanka nor most other poor countries are equipped to bear...