Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like thinking about such things, it's also a rip-snortin' adventure; I suspect the Joker is coming back in the next issue and I can't wait. Holy Breakthrough, Batman, I think...
...last argument states that since the dining hall people "rip us off year after year" by charging us for meals we never eat, why miss this one? As one of the coordinators of the Harvard Food Salvage Project, I have had a unique opportunity to see all levels of the Food Services at work. While I would not say the dining services at Harvard are perfect, I feel that for the most part both the administrators and workers of the Food Services are trying hard to be efficient and effective. True, students miss many meals, but we are only charged...
...final argument against the Oxfam fast, and my favorite, is the "to hell with the dining services" one. They rip us off year after year, charging us for scores of meals we never eat. It's understandable that the dining service employees need to be paid, even on Oxfam night. But there are many creative, yet simple, ways we could donate meals and money to Oxfam that would take this into account. Only the greedy and apathetic dining service hierarchy stubbornly refuses to even consider them. Instead, they insist that the Oxfam fast be a college-wide, one-night-only...
What is needed, perhaps, is some mass debunking of the Harvard faculty. We have to show the Wizard of Oz for what he really is--minus the amplification and smokescreen. We have to jump on Gulliver like the Lilliputians (the metaphors are really piling up now) and rip off the false nose and mustache...
...winter or driving their Cadillacs at 80 m.p.h.--though the law still mandates a 55-m.p.h. limit--most conservation measures are already built in. In recent weeks, dozens of economists across the land have been soothing energy alarmists by intoning the same line: "No one is going to rip the insulation out of the walls." Says Energy Secretary Herrington: "The country is never going back to 1973. We have had a major changeover...