Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salford in Britain. Under steel's curious economics, it is sometimes cheaper to keep a plant running unprofitably than to close it completely. In a total shutdown, the company must write off the entire value of the factory, make heavy outlays to dismissed workers, and pay to dismantle the mill and clean up the site...
...only a few feet short of the mother lode. Underneath Henderson, recent exploration has shown, are ore deposits said to be worth $1 billion. It is here that Noranda's subsidiary Crown Butte is pushing hard to start up a large 24-hour- a-day gold mine and processing mill. Workings would be underground and no cyanide would be used, but Yellowstone Park's director of resource management, Stu Coleman, has said that from an environmental point of view, Henderson Mountain is "probably the worst possible place in the U.S. for a gold mine...
Well, kind of. Instead of your average run-of-the-mill practice session, Monday afternoon brought with it a special scrimmage: forwards on defense, blue-liners up front, sophomore goalies Tripp Tracy and Aaron Israel skating and senior defenders Lou Body and Sean McCann mugging it up in goal...
...tonight, Nick seemed a little too... ominous. He's no run-of-the-mill character himself: he completely lacks all social graces, he never opens his shades, and for years has been trying to keep his ethnic identity a secret. ("I walk with all the people," he used to shout. When I told his mother this, she looked a little nervous and asked her husband if maybe Nick should see a psychiatrist.) I was a little suprised that Nick would have the insight to sense that, in his deranged world, I was 'not normal.' What could it mean...
...assertion that homosexuality is "shameful" and "vile"? Certainly not with logic--logic cannot refute epithets. The dialogue can only degenerate into a childish "is too-is not" sparring match. Debate devoid of reasoning cannot possibly enhance intellectual discussion at Harvard or contribute in any valuable way to John Stuart Mill's marketplace of ideas...