Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their jobs, then rehired about 800 police at double their former salaries. On March 17, U.N. and NATO peacekeepers tried to arrest a group of Serb judges who had occupied a U.N. courthouse in Mitrovica. The confrontation escalated. Serbs tossed grenades; nato troops and U.N. police fired back with rubber bullets. Hundreds were injured, and a Ukrainian U.N. police officer was killed. U.N. officials say Belgrade orchestrated the clash as part of a wider effort to seize control of U.N. offices in northern Kosovo; local Serb leaders say they were only asserting their right to be judged by their...
...Obama was once rubber to Hillary Clinton's glue, his former pastor's inflammatory remarks and his San Francisco gaffe on working-class bitterness now are sticking to him-fast-as polls show white blue-collar voters harboring serious doubts about his candidacy. So on Monday, a day before the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, the last question Obama took at a "town hall" meeting got to the heart of the matter. Diana Allen, 39, an employee of LED light manufacturer, CREE, who identified herself as an undecided Democratic voter, said the most important thing for her was victory...
...When Lilly Ledbetter began working at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1979, she too knew nothing of her peers' paychecks. She was hired as a supervisor at its Birmingham, Ala., tire plant, doing all the work her male colleagues did. She says she hauled tires off machinery for inspection, rotated through every division and pulled many hours of overtime. She helped launch a new plant that made truck tires. Throughout, she says she earned bonuses and plaudits for solid work...
...Just as it is a myth that women are ‘meant’ to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are ‘meant’ for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not ‘meant’ for sex at all), it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are ‘meant’ to birth a child.” Of course people regularly engage in recreational sex in which pregnancy...
...There may be a comical aspect in gazing too deeply at the tire’s inky rubber darkness. But the choice of the swing at the center of the iconography of Harvard’s crown jewel social event reveals something about what Harvard students are, what they imagine themselves to be, and how they animate their bizarre concepts of fun. From one direction, the tire swing is just paraphernalia for an afternoon of enjoyment. From another, though, it is a semiotic icon for the unique Harvard imagination of leisure...