Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rowers at Weld Boathouse thank The Crimson for the March 20 article "Looking Towards Nationals, published as a part of the "Spring Sports Preview" series. However, Radcliffe Crew would like to draw the attention of The Crimson and its readers to the phrase: "Harvard's Women's Crew Team," a misnomer used in the opening of the article. Although we are a women's team, and although we are all undergraduates enrolled at Harvard University, we row for Radcliffe...
...introduced discount frozen foods, including Swanson budget dinners (average cost: $1.39). In the hope of stemming a decline in business that typically reached 20% in the past year, restaurants are adding such moderately priced classics as fried chicken, meat loaf and bread pudding. Restaurateurs have coined a phrase for it: "casualization." In fast food, price is the object. After Taco Bell won new fans by pricing about half its items at 99 cents or less, Burger King began offering Burger Buddies cheeseburgers at 29 cents for customers who buy fries and a drink...
...mentality is there: Fitzsimmons has the power to let the number of international students "creep up" (Nye's phrase) as he finds more "excellent candidates," (also Nye's phrase). And the space could be there as soon as the affiliated housing near the Quad is renovated...
Bush has never been comfortable with what he calls the "vision thing," but in the context of the gulf war and its aftermath his mind has grown fairly visionary. Three times in his speech Bush conjured up a phrase he has used much in recent months -- "new world order...
What does new world order mean -- in George Bush's mind? In the future of the world? Is it a rhetorical flourish in the same harmless league as his "thousand points of light"? Or does the phrase betoken some deeper American ambition -- a pattern of the Persian Gulf intervention to be extended elsewhere in the world as occasions arise...