Word: rubbishing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book as thin and derivative in a 2000 article in the Wall Street Journal and has since refused to look at any of the sequels. "I would think in another generation or so," he told TIME, "Harry Potter will be in the dustbins everywhere. It will be period-piece rubbish because it is so atrociously written...
...Anastasijevic/Belgrade NAPLES CAN'T REFUSE ITALY Several Naples city councilmen blamed the Camorra organized-crime syndicate for a garbage-collection stoppage last week, which resulted in giant trash heaps on the streets and reeking dumpsters being set ablaze. After public-waste dumps reached capacity, about 20,000 tons of rubbish piled up around the city. The fires forced the closures of schools and outdoor markets and prompted some residents to don surgical masks. Most garbage service returned to normal by week's end, but the crisis renewed attention to the so-called "eco-Mafia," the Mob's alleged responsibility...
...just come back from Cambodia with a bunch of dried toads," declares artist Jerry Swaffield, pretty much by way of introduction. Thirty minutes later, he's prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, cars howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...anticipate, though, an angry email (or six) telling me that there’s no such thing as a “dud”—that everyone defines success in his or her own way, and blah blah blah. That’s rubbish. Yes, there are many different kinds of achievement—some that can be measured by one’s accomplishments, and some that cannot. A dud is a Harvard student that is faltering in the former category—and there are plenty roaming around Cambridge...
...Will businesses be cited or penalized or fined if there is loitering outside their establishment? Will they be cited or penalized or fined if there is rubbish outside their establishment? I don’t want businesses to call me and tell me they’ve got a $150 fine because of noise,” she says...