Word: scum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POND SCUM Strange compounds are turning up in European water sources: traces of antibiotics, cholesterol-lowering drugs and other pharmaceuticals that seem to be coming from human waste. Whether the same holds true for the U.S.--and what hazard it poses--isn't yet known...
Like most addictions, the thievery grew gradually. It began, says Blondie, as "nothing more than reimbursement. Over time, as we got greedy, it became a kind of tax on the bad guys, a spoils-of-war kind of thing. But that's different than a scum-of-the-earth activity like taking a bribe to let a drug operation continue...
...Apple, where the rate of violent crime is plunging twice as fast as the national average, according to FBI statistics released Sunday. The self-styled capital of the world is now officially safer than at any time in the last three decades. In other words, even the encrusted scum of the ?Taxi Driver? era has been washed off the streets...
...woman in the docket: the Working Mother. A banner outside the courthouse read DON'T BLAME THE NANNY, BLAME THE MOTHER. And observers of the trial who wrote, called talk radio and clogged the Internet did indeed blame the mother, ophthalmologist Deborah Eappen. Eappen became the embodiment of yuppie scum, a single-minded careerist pursuing psychic rewards and a grander house while leaving her newborn with an inexperienced teenager with a taste for Boston nightlife...
...woman outside Kensington Palace shouted, "You're horrible!" at TV cameramen. A man-on-the-street interview by some hapless reporter yielded, "You people still at it? Why don't you just p___ off?" At the beginning, it was us vs. you: us, the decent public; you, the murderous scum known as the press...