Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city of Atlanta proves the folly of underestimating the potential of the South. The capital of this region of "abject backwardness" refuses to fit the stereotype. The Olympics are coming. Conventions continue to pour in, and companies such as Coca-Cola ad IBM continue to locate their headquarters in this booming city. Atlanta's regional theater, under the artistic direction of an African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists...
There is little doubt where the government's revenue goes. A former US ambassador to Burma describes SLORC as "so single-minded that whatever money they obtain from foreign sources, they pour straight into the army while the rest of the country is collapsing." PepsiCo contributes to the government in more subtle ways as well; they sponsored the first trade fair in Rangoon in 1994 and have been the sole sponsor of athletic competitions. One can only guess how Pepsi's red-white-and-blue symbol is interpreted...
Last week, upon hearing of the bombing, I sat down to draft a letter for The Crimson on behalf of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. All the things I wrote then apply to this situation as well. We bitterly mourn the deaths of the victims. We express our outrage and pour out our wrath upon Hamas, whose cruelty, inhumanity and hatred of the Jewish people knows no bounds. We demand that all possible steps be taken in order to apprehend these terrorists and to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. And "we hope and pray that the dream of peace...
...narrator of Zenzele, a woman who writes words of wisdom to her daughter, a Harvard student, explains, "[O]ur churches and governments pour money into [these students], who ultimately drain our resources. If our brightest minds go and never return, then it is no wonder that we have no engineers to run our machinery, no doctors to staff our hospitals, no professors to fill our universities, and no teachers to educate the generations to come...
...transition from the confines of the University to the wide-open "real world" is looming on the horizon, and decisions on graduate school and employment applications are beginning to pour...