Word: mischiefism
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...Force case doesn't suggest the story of a girl who lost her heart to a cad; its account is of an officer and a vixen. The setting is made for mischief--the cold prairie city of Minot, where all winter long the blizzards howl maddeningly across the frozen North Dakota plains. More people moved out of North Dakota than any other state in the country, according to a survey by Allied Van Lines last year. It's so cold in the winter that the funeral homes stockpile bodies in special warehouses and wait until the earth thaws...
Next Saturday, the club will host a hip-hop conference boasting such groups as Digable Planets, Supernatural, Naughty by Nature, Zulu Nation, Souls of Mischief and Mic Geronimo and the rapper Bahamadia, Fraser said...
...said an anonymous process would take "every opportunity for mischief off the plate...
...excellence of the Rimsky-Korsakov. Still, the imperfections of the orchestra's performance of the symphonic poem were technical, not conceptual. As Brent Auerbach '97 notes in the program, the piece often suggests the 14th-century folk hero Till "thumbing his nose" at the scholastic world and causing general mischief, two activities every Harvard student should have mastered by now. The oftenmuddy winds therefore did no permanent damage to the spirit of the music, and were canceled out (sometimes literally) by especially fine brass. Conductor James Yannatos coaxed playfully nuanced dynamics out of the orchestra and achieved another strong finish...
When it comes to the fiscal side of economic policy, Wall Street expects little mischief from the White House and Congress this year. While the budget deficit remains the Street's No. 1 concern, both Democrats and Republicans seem intent on a deal that would achieve balance by 2002. And what investors care most about--the deficit as a share of economic activity--has become a positive comfort to them. The deficit amounts to just 1.4% of gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1974 and a stunning improvement over the 4.7% share it claimed when Clinton took office...