Word: slush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Subscription fees] are going into a slush fund to fight me," Gartner said, noting that the fees made up a large portion of the $115,000 in surplus the Daily has earned on average over each of the last five years...
...working this summer at the Forward, a national Jewish weekly based in Manhattan. While the paper prides itself on serious reporting--and I haven't heard of a slush fund to pay willing eye-witnesses to make up stories for us--the reach of the tabloids is unavoidable. No newspaper, no matter how respectable, can escape the popular expectation of "scandal exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have...
...assignment was to read the "slush pile," the weighty but eclectic group of unsolicited articles received by the magazine...
This past week students returned from a spring break filled with warm weather and sunny beaches only to be greated by 24 inches of snow awaiting them in Cambridge. Yet despite having to climb mountains of ice and wade through puddles of slush, undergraduates managed to enjoy what is most likely the last blizzard of the winter (spring...
...senior faculty members might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? Might not the Dean of the Faculty be able to use a Core slush fund to provide "incentives," like the existence of additional paid teaching fellow positions for graduate students? It seems that the only loser would be the Core Program Review Committee; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...