Word: rubbishing
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...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...
...string of brutal cases has sparked growing fear. A cement-truck driver named Hua Ruizhuo was executed last year for picking up prostitutes near the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, handcuffing them in his van, raping them and dumping their bodies in rubbish heaps around the city. He killed 14 women. Around the same time, police in China's northeastern province of Jilin captured Piao Yongzhi, who murdered an undisclosed number of longhaired women, keeping their tresses in bags at his house. He flayed the face of one victim, cooked...
...find themselves heckled by younger women who exclaimed “How progressive is subsidized childcare if it means that I hire some poor immigrant woman and pay her less than I earn at my job?” or “Equal representation in Parliament is rubbish; any woman sitting as MP will sell us out anyway; look at Thatcher!” But though heated, the arguments lacked rancor, and all the nationalities and ideologies seemed strangely united by the vibrancy and possibility of the moment...
...Ages, which is, in a sense, my anti- Harry Potter anthology, because I loathe Harry Potter. Those books are hopeless and massively cliched--bad thinking and bad writing. And they will vanish. In spite of all the hype and all the 120 million copies, they're bound for the rubbish heap in five, six years...