Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...
...ugly vestige of a Harvard long past--an aristocratic policy that violates any notions of fairness and equality of opportunity. Even if Harvard only invokes the legacy preference to decide between two candidates of otherwise identical qualifications, the policy still favors those born at the top of the social heap. Granting this advantage to the fortuitously born tilts the playing field against minorities and the economically disadvantaged, because most current legacies are descended from people who attended a Harvard that was a bastion of rich, white Northeasterners...
...motto of Earth Day, "Every Day is Earth Day," implies that Earth Day is an ideal after which to model all other days. If Earth Day is the best we can do, our planet is in a heap of trouble...
...Heap and others acknowledge that the Advocate still carries a lot of weight, making it difficult for the other magazines to attract willing writers...
...Heap said, "There's certainly room enough for three mainstream magazines and all the special interest journals to exist in the literary community at Harvard...