Word: erecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condom education session itself proved to be as sterile as a "Leave It To Beaver" special. Peer educators (meaning high school kids) training their classmates handed out an innocuous looking ditto: "How to Use a Latex Condom Properly." The sixth of 12 steps reads, "Place condom on erect penis prior to any contact." Step 7: "Roll condom down to base of penis." Step 9: "After ejaculation hold condom at base of penis and withdraw slowly before erection is lost." Gotta love that class instruction--reading, writing and wrist action...
...presidential contender in the extremity of his policy. Not only did he vocally oppose NAFTA and the creation of the World Trade Organization (unlike Dole, Gramm and Clinton), now that these agreements have passed, he won't let bygones be bygones. He wants to dismantle both pacts and erect new trade barriers: a 10% tariff on Japanese goods, a 20% tariff on Chinese goods and a "social tariff" of unknown size on goods from Mexico and other developing nations...
Despite support for development, Winters adds that the decision to erect a parking garage near Cambridge Common was made in "poor taste...
Winters says he is sympathetic to the owners' concerns but adds that the decision to erect a parking garage in that area would be in "poor taste...
...grates open, knowing that the problem would soon be out of their hands. Instead, by some perverse twist of logic, the renovations have become a rationale for abandoning the fight prematurely. Two or three years may not seem like a big deal to the folks who decided to erect the cage, but for the homeless, just one winter may seem like an eternity...