Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When is $300 billion not a lot of money? It would make every resident of Buffalo, N.Y., an instant millionaire. It equals 40 years of profit for Exxon. But if it comes from the tobacco industry, well, for a growing number of folks $300 billion is a sum to sniff at. This is the nightmare that proponents of a sweeping congressional tobacco settlement most feared: a greedfest from plaintiffs' lawyers and the public now that tobacco executives have come to the bargaining table. Consider the state of Missouri, which so far has steered clear of the tobacco suits. "I expect...
...also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem to suffer the penalty for dividing their loyalties; their professors and classmates in the sciences often see them as mercenary sorts not committed to the subject matter, while more purely artistic or verbally-oriented types sometimes sniff that pre-meds have "sold their souls to organic chemistry," (this from stout-hearted Haley Steele '99, a VES major). These accusations are not totally warranted--all a pre-med is, after all, is just someone who wants to help others later in life. The fact that people often have...
...administration at other schools." Princeton denied that the program was an end run around the Overlap pact. A Dartmouth official called the denial an act of "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during a deposition, "I would really not have thought a person as well trained in the law as Mr. Schmidt would make such a blatantly foolish assertion...
...Thinking Tag get-together, people wander about and let their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...
Hannan calls Drexel, who has bounded away from the ramp to sniff some daisies. Then Hannan gets ready to skate for 15 minutes before heading home to Somerville to relieve the babysitter...