Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white posters tell me that Senator Paul Wellstone, one of only a handful of politicians I truly respect, is going to speak at the IOP on Friday. I show up at the Kennedy School half an hour early to grab a good seat, but the first few rows of the Starr Auditorium, virtually empty, are reserved for important people. So I hike to the rear of the hall and park in a sea of K-Schoolers who spend the next half-hour swapping stories about foolish things college kids have been saying in their classes. ("He made this comment...
...everyone quickly points out that Gates is "the smartest guy I've ever met." Yet he gets locked out of his $40 million house and stuck in the yard, doesn't wear a seat belt while driving recklessly and thinks his daughter is "just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal...
...Elderly drivers, be warned. In early findings the government reports that AIR BAGS may have no net benefit for drivers over 70. The bags' explosive force can crush frail, aging bones--even cause death. Advice: sit far from the bag, and wear a seat belt...
Drawing a crowd that stretched out the 350-seat room, Davis defined activism as social action on the part of dedicated individuals, warning students to be wary of unnecessary reverence for old methods and leaders...
...accountable to students; it's dean of students threatened to intervene in a referendum administered by the students government; its dean of the College urged the Faculty--the Faculty! --to re-evaluate the students government, which should derive its authority from students in the first place; it refused to seat students on the committee charged with selecting a new dean of the College; it refused to heed the unanimous recommendation of students sitting on the committee to select the first dean of public service. Etcetera...