Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOTIVATION the Shaft aesthetic...
...particularly popular industry, given the propensity to insult the planet in order to get at ores. And this is not a particularly good time to be in the mining business, what with the price of commodities bouncing off all-time lows. Freeport's profits have gone down the shaft, with earnings off 33% in its last quarter, to $129 million. Perhaps that's one reason why Moffett and other senior executives skipped the company's annual meeting last month. Certainly he's used to confrontation, having had to deal with vociferous environmental and social activists who in years past have...
Thanks to The List, Shaft, First Prize, Deuss and Stinky. Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is a philosophy concentrator in Lowell House. This is his final column...
...sounds of laughing in the hallways, as the shooters prowled through the smoke. They heard the jeering. "Oh, you f__ing nerd. Tonight's a good night to die." Senior Nick Foss and a friend ducked into a bathroom, punched through a ceiling panel and shimmied along the ventilation shaft. Suddenly one of the vents broke, and Foss fell 15 ft. down onto a table in the teachers' lounge. Somehow uninjured, he picked himself up and sprinted out a door to freedom as the shooting continued behind him. "They were shooting everywhere; it seemed like they wanted to kill everything...
...Trumping the shrink-wrapped tees at Old Navy, the Muji presents pen as commodity. The pen shaft resembles superfluous packaging, but the Muji carries no extras; the pen is packaging. Form, function...