Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At that altitude, U.S. pilots faced no danger. Of course, there was no danger that the mission might actually succeed either, but that didn't matter in the administration's political calculations. The air drops served one and only purpose: to get Bosnia off Bill's back.
These reductionist labels oversimplify the multidimensional aspect of the figures to which they are applied. Doesn't it make more sense to gauge what Colin Powell means to the Harvard community as a whole and not what he means to one sector of it? Harvard is so diverse, it would...
VATs, common in Europe, impose tariffs at various stages of a product's creation, with the cost eventually passed on to the consumer in the price of the finished goods -- a de facto sales tax. Bill Clinton, shying away, dubbed them a "radical" revenue-raising method in February. But faced...
Appleyard would lay the woes of the 20th century at Stephen Hawking's wheelchair. Commenting on Hawking's oft-expressed hope that physicists may soon construct a theory that would unite all the forces of nature into one mathematical equation suitable for a T shirt, a so-called theory of...
The ad, placed by the so-called "Organization for a Better Newspaper," was an attempt by members of the Undergraduate Council and their supporters (who paid for the ad) to do what politicians, both student and professional, traditionally do when faced with unfavorable coverage: blame the messenger.