Word: ruining
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hunting of the President,? co-directed by Nickolas Perry and FOB #1 Harry Thomason, concentrated on the long-running campaign to ruin Clinton, first in Arkansas, then in the White House. The film revved into high dudgeon and stayed there, spicing the allegations of dirty tricks with obtrusively cute inserts from old movies. All that visual noise allowed it to tiptoe past the acknowledgment that, however heinous the methods of Clinton?s enemies, most of the sexual dirt they shoveled was based in fact...
...little quick-dissolving clouds in front of my face. Every now and then a car passed on Memorial Drive. Ice had started to form along the banks of the Charles. It is dangerous to recite poetry, because it is so easy to sound pretentious or uncomfortable and thus to ruin it, but my friend recited in a low clear fine voice. “Oh, lovely,” I said. High above us, the tire swing rope creaked against the tree branch, sighed, and creaked again. He said: “But now I only hear/ Its melancholy, long...
Counselor Georgine Brown-Thompson remembers "empty PTA halls" before introducing HIP to Walt Whitman Middle School 246 in Brooklyn three years ago. "We've seen PTA attendance rise from five to 164," she says. The school was on the brink of financial ruin in 2001 when 127 parents opted for student transfers under the No Child Left Behind legislation. "Our school was being left behind," Brown-Thompson says. After HIP's introduction, 110 parents changed their mind, saving the school $1.3 million in funding it would have lost if the students had left...
This advice comes not because engaging in this pseudo-scam might ruin your credit or irritate your friends (which it will), but because the iPod is an elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between the conversation-loving proletariat and the expanding bourgeoisie who choose to forego all verbal communication with fellow students and withdraw entirely into the acoustic bliss of the iPod, or some inferior substitute. Don’t join the ranks of the latter...
...truth is, often where there is commercial wind development, there is also oppression and opposition. Because not only do wind farms ruin local living environments, they apparently do it for no good reason, according to recent data pouring in from around the world—data that run counter to those of the industries and cast serious doubt on their ability to sincerely address the critical issues theyclaim they are committed...