Word: miasma
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...departments and several graduate schools" as a reason that any hiring of minority faculty will be "slow and scattered." What kind of logic is that? Does that mean that the University should never hire any minority faculty members because they will immediately be swallowed up in the frightening miasma that is Harvard? There is such a thing as proceeding one step at a time. The staff, in both its logic and its recommendations, does not seem to understand that...
...city can afford a commissioner of animal rights. The human animals who live around the Square also have rights--like the right to breathe something better than the putrid miasma of exhaust and New Age incense that is our local atmosphere. When Li and I finish rolling over the alcinheads, we will stage our own "Monster Tank Rally" and crush the offending cabs...
...economy collapsed, these institutions were cast adrift. The Kirov's subsidy was cut from 95% of its budget to 35%, and it will sink lower. Gergiev has the double task of keeping his treasure functioning at all and at the same time hauling it from the timeless miasma of Soviet bureaucracy into the tough entrepreneurial world of the late 20th century...
Even if the high command remains united, the army that Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting...
...clouds, day seems like night and temperatures are 11 degreesC (20 degreesF) cooler than in places where the sky is clear. Some of the well fires could burn for years, spewing out poisonous fumes that choke the air and rake the throat, particularly when the air is still. The miasma poses a special risk to the very young, the old and the infirm. "There is a real danger to human life," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "When the winds stop, a lot of people are going...