Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
What does this mean? Who knows? Maybe this writer was thinking about the Molson Golden ad that flashed across a television screen in a hotel room somewhere in Canton...
...Sheremyetovo International Airport, the old city quickly pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings; the occasional startling glimpse of a golden-domed church or pastel-walled czarist mansion; the dark masses hurrying by or huddling in their inevitable queues to buy what little is in the stores. Much more than merely familiar, Moscow today seems as immutable, as depressingly eternal as ever...
That droves of high-school students shell out $600 for this instruction indicates the extent of SAT-mania. Although some colleges, such as Harvard, weigh the SAT only moderately in the admissions process, high-school students and their families see the SAT as the golden key to college...
...Pusey, the protesters' specific demands had little relevance; it was "scholarship and reason" themselves that were at stake, as he would later write. Through most of his presidency, Pusey had proudly watched as Harvard helped guide post-war America into a "golden age." But in recent years, many at Harvard had harshly attacked Pusey's most cherished goals and accomplishments. Some had even called for revolution...