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Didion writes of a visit to a "body dump" outside of San Salvador, not unlike garbage dumps in this country--with the sole exception that human remains replace refuse. Overlooking the dump on a hill, Didion came across a man teaching a woman to drive, with three small children looking...
...agency has furthermore demonstrated incompetence at the highest levels, both in allowing waste producers to dump the materials haphazardly in the easiest manner and at the lowest cost--which often means into a city sewer system or a municipal garbage dump--and in not pressing for legislation of better methods of waste disposal...
Throughout the opening stanza the Crimson attack couldn't get in gear, as the Engineers played a successful game of dump-the-puck-and-chase-it hockey...
...real Gandhi mistreated his family. He wrote about his illiterate wife: "I simply cannot bear to look at Ba's face. The expression is often like that on the face of a meek cow and gives one the feeling as a cow occasionally does, that in her own dump manner she is saying something." He refused to educate his sons, ordered them as young men to abstain from sex, and disowned the eldest, Harilal, for warning to get married. His son eventuallty attacked Gandhi in print, converted to Islam, and died an alcoholic...
...market his creation in 1973 and jauntily christened it Anti-Monopoly. Parker Brothers, which has been making Monopoly since 1935, warned him in two "hellfire and brimstone" letters to change the name. After one court ruled against Anspach, Parker Brothers buried 40,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly in a dump in Minnesota. But a U.S. appeals court eventually ruled in favor of the professor, holding that the name Monopoly had become generic and that a trademark is lost when it "primarily denotes a product, not the product's producer." Parker Brothers tried a final roll of the dice...