Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement is hollow; Harvard would never stoop that low. After all, a universal alcohol ban would be unenforceable. Just look at all the other alternatives in Cambridge for sudsing up, and the fact that alcohol, once it is in the system, cannot be banned...
Sometimes a spartan one. CNN bolsters its profits (an estimated $60 million last year) through a minimal use of high-cost graphics and glitz, and by maintaining a notoriously low-paid nonunion staff. Shaw does not divulge his salary ("It's between me and the IRS"), but insists that it is not comparable to the millions paid to his network rivals. In any case, the exemplar of CNN spareness takes a dim view of such excess. Says he: "Beware of anchormen who ride in limousines...
...That voters with low income and education, like many of Robertson's supporters, are traditionally less active and influential in party politics. Then why are so many candidates using a populist appeal this year, which deliberately seeks a low base in the social scale? Iowa returns showed that half of Robertson's people did not go to college (for Bush that total was 29%), and 41% of them made $30,000 or less a year (compared with 26% of Bush's total...
...narrates the tale of his Colleton, South Carolina family. An ill-fitting puzzle of contrasts, the prologue continues with a poignant description of a healthy childhood that Dr. Spock would have praised. "I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders," says...
...other states, such as California, where a high number of illegal immigrants refuse to respond to the national census, cities are not receiving enough federal funding to provide adequate social services for their residents, since federal money is doled out based on a falsely low federal head-count...