Word: englands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the president said that geographical factors make it difficult for Harvard to recruit minorities, especially Hispanics who are underrepresented in New York England...
...John Hancock Building certainly is one of its kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel the excitement build as you are whisked 60 floors straight up to the high point of your Boston visit." On a clear day, if it is possible to push through drooling third graders gluing there faces to the glass...
...Oversized luxury cars just don't mesh with the puritan values of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Car companies throughout Cambridge, Boston and even Cape Cod refuse to deal in extravagant vehicles. "Eight passenger limousines are as big as we go," explained one Cambridge Limo representative. One stodgy New England limo firm mentioned that they serve fruit juice to underage riders, instead of champagne. How considerate! When in doubt, import from New York...
...Times of London responded to the Figaro statistics with the headline IT'S TRUE: THE FRENCH REALLY ARE THE SMELLIEST IN EUROPE. But are they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs! These people are up here only eight weeks a term...
Sources: Good News--Obstetrics & Gynecology (1/99); Journal of the American Medical Association (2/2/99). Bad News--both items, New England Journal of Medicine (2/3/99...