Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being pretty depressing even as wars go, would seem to be nearly untouchable. Not only was there too much R-rated action (drug abuse, massacres of civilians) but the story had an unhappy ending. Such recent movies as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket could immerse their audience in the muck and moral quicksand for a couple of hours and then let go. But TV series must keep viewers coming back week after week, adhering to standards of "family entertainment" along...
...layer but powerful greenhouse gases as well. So are nitrogen oxides, which are pollutants spewed out of automobile exhausts and power-plant smokestacks. Another greenhouse gas is methane, the primary component of natural gas. Methane is also generated by bacteria living in the guts of cattle and termites, the muck of rice paddies and the rotting garbage in landfills. Each of these sources is fostered by human activity -- even the termites, which thrive in the clearings left after tropical rain forests are cut down. Humanity's contribution to the greenhouse effect comes from so many basic activities that man cannot...
...much good do the consultants do? "About half the time they muck it up," says John McClintock, a college adviser at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School. The best realize they are most effective working behind the scenes. Colleges do not appreciate phone calls from paid advocates. And gushing recommendations from hired imagemakers, scoffs Kevin Rooney, director of admissions at Notre Dame, "carry no weight...
...elections aren't campaigns in utopia. But that's because this republic is run on different principles than Plato's. An American election is a conversation. It tells us what the parties and the voters are willing to say and hear. If it does so with a minimum of muck and outright lying, it has done its job relatively well. This one has. Bring on Dan Quayle and the A.C.L.U. cards...
Quarterback: Wind and rain are the biggest foes Tom Yohe has faced this year. In the muck of The Stadium last week, Yohe completed 13 of 30 passes for 194 yards. He needs 16 yards passing to go over 1000 this season. Yohe has completed 65 of 130 passes this year (exactly 50 percent for you non-math majors) and has thrown six touchdowns and four interceptions...