Word: rubbishing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seven-day stay in Mogadishu this month, I caught a glimpse of the country's dysfunction. Somalia has atomized into its ancient form--a collection of hundreds of clans. Taxation has been replaced by protection rackets ranging from clan gangsters who collect weekly "rent" to garbage collectors who dump rubbish in a street and demand money to remove...
...productions, most of the people who would put on ‘Ruddigore’—which Forbes doesn’t even mention—first came together.”The incensed alumnus calls the fable about HRG&SP starting in Winthrop, “rubbish. Absolute rubbish.”According to HRG&SP’s historian, Ben T. Morris ’09, the group is “in the process of phasing [the account crediting Winthrop] out,” and is waiting for their webmaster to make the changes.BUILDING...
...anyone for the expansion of the phony war?the tiresome tactical games played before and between matches. "Players these days talk too much," says Geoff Lawson. "There's a perception that you've got to match the Australians for talk, to try to dominate psychologically ... it's just rubbish. Just go out and play cricket, will...
...this stage of his tenure?isn't the leader Mark Taylor was. A statesman as well as a winner, Taylor had the edge in imagination: he knew when to desist with the orthodox and try the unexpected, and he stepped in when one of his bowlers was sending down rubbish, regardless of the bowler's name. Richie Benaud was the master of appearing assured even when the plane was in a nosedive, a knack Ponting rarely displayed in England. What's not in doubt is that his players want him as captain. "I know he has a lot to offer...
...wake of the movie “Borat,” two cases are being brought against four companies involved in its making for causing humiliation and distress to its alleged victims. One lawsuit is from a group of frat boys who drunkenly embarrassed themselves by spewing up sexist rubbish before international audiences. They blame being drunk—caused, they say, exclusively by the production team buying them rounds—and seem to think that signing contracts and behaving stupidly in public while inebriated entitles them to monetary compensation...