Word: flare
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chronic problem that will continue to plague future tailgates: alcohol policy. There is no question that some serious miscommunications between the Dean’s Office, the Undergraduate Council and BPD over expected attendance levels and alcohol policy led to some of BPD’s post-Game flare-up. Captain Evans seemed shocked by the perceived omnipresence of hard alcohol. “People were just carrying jugs around with Jack Daniels, vodka and tequila,” he said. But the presence of hard liquor at The Game was directly attributable to Harvard’s ill-conceived...
...then there are the unnecessary whistles—the late hits, the obstructions away from the play, the tempers that flare in heated rivalries such as this weekend?...
...This has less to do with the vast underground spaces the exhibition commands at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until Dec. 12, or with the subterranean sheen of its bronzed walls, and more to do with the art. In the first of the rooms, figures flare up like handprints sprayed in ocher across cave walls. But mostly they dance. These figures are the mimih, the devilish rock spirits that are often seen cavorting with Dionysian glee. Well may they be mirthful...
...been a great career move. One disadvantage of that fertility, though, is that he can spread too many seeds, too many messages. Is he for the free market or not? Where does the ladder of opportunity begin - and end? Do politicians listen or lead? Some of his enthusiasms flare only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts...
Some first-years had heard about Summers’ rocky start as president, when a flare-up with former Harvard Professor Cornel R. West ’74 made headlines...