Word: noxiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is to preserve its independence by being dependent on even the most noxious of corporate donors...
...middle of the ocean some people began to care. It was a thick, black, foul-smelling mass of sludge--described as "black mayonnaise"--perhaps 100 square miles in area. No one knew how deep. It came drifting back to the New York shoreline with a number of noxious odors and bacteria. Fortunately, disease and severe hardship was avoided because the threat was detected early. We may not be so lucky again...
Police trying to enforce it, at any rate, have swept up along with the hookers a 25-year-old Radcliffe graduate on the way home from the movies and a church worker counseling prostitutes. Meanwhile, pimps, the most noxious corner of the prostitution triangle, often go untouched. Convicting them is difficult because prostitutes are frequently afraid to testify against them. The Manhattan district attorney's office will use most of $200,000 it just received from the state for combating pimps to change the prostitutes' minds and lives with protection and "travel home" money...
...firms, to which he submitted a detailed questionnaire delving into pay scales, working conditions and advancement opportunities for blacks and coloreds. He also visited plants and spoke to nonwhite workers in their communities. According to his findings, Ford deserves top marks for doing away with the most noxious symbols of apartheid. The company regularly consults nonwhite employees on plant problems and even recognizes black unions; though such unions are not specifically prohibited, black organizing is effectively blocked by South Africa's labor code, which excludes unionized blacks from officially recognized wage negotiations and denies them the right to strike...
Honorable members dived for cover under their antique, leather-padded benches last week as demonstrators protesting Britain's military presence in Northern Ireland hurled something worse than slogans at the august mother of parliaments. Despite strict security, a man and a woman had managed to smuggle a truly noxious bundle of objections into the visitors' gallery at Westminster: packages of horse manure. After bombarding the M.P.s with the missiles, the coprophilic dissidents-one of whom was Yana Mintoff, 26, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta-were dragged off by police...