Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current imbroglio over heresy and money can be traced back to 1983, when the church hired John H. Hoagland Jr. to run its media operations. One of Hoagland's first acts was to curtail spending on Eddy's daily newspaper, the money-losing Christian Science Monitor. He began to pour tens of millions of dollars into World Monitor magazine, a nightly cable-TV news program, a Boston UHF station and, especially, a 24-hour cable service, Monitor Channel, founded...
Traditionally, Army has played Harvard easy in the early going, only to pour the offense on as it falls behind. In 1989, Harvard jumped out to an early 14-0 lead but soon fell to pieces as the Cadets rattled off 48 straight points...
Will Harvard turn away prominent European professors and all scholars who enjoy open stacks? Will it begin to pour the cement for new southborough silos...
...already being socked with higher taxes at every level. There is a dismal psychology at work here: some homeowners are unwilling to pay more to educate other people's kids; some parents, out of ignorance or indifference, tolerate mediocrity in their local schools. And some are simply unwilling to pour money down what seems to them to be a black hole. In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters were so disgusted at junketing county commissioners that they voted down a bond issue for schools. They feared that the money would be wasted -- and besides, many argued, having computers in the classrooms...
...control centers; the U.S. had even set up a helicopter-refueling depot about 25 miles behind the Iraqi border fortifications. As the deadline approached, allied engineers cut wide passages through defensive sand berms that the Iraqis had erected along the borders, creating gaps that soldiers and tanks could pour through. Allied planes began using napalm for the first time in the war, dropping it on oil- filled trenches in front of Iraqi positions. The Iraqis had planned to set fire to the oil when allied troops tried to cross; the napalm was apparently intended to burn it off prematurely...