Word: spawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dance attendees seemed to relish the theme of Anti-Valentine's not merely out of bitterness, but also out of playful cynicism. Although people did not go as far as calling Valentine's Day a spawn of Satan, many view it as a commercialized ploy. Leverett's Aaron Caughey '95 found the idea of Anti-Valentine's Day Dances "fabulous. I think Valentine's Day puts a lot of pressure on people. But this says it's okay to be single--there's no pressure. Valentine's Day is a bit of a marketing thing--you know 'how much stuff...
...course, e-mail is not the only way a virus can be transmitted, and indeed, it is quite a rare means of transmission since it is pretty klunky (most computer programmers, especially the unhappy souls who spawn viruses, prefer to be "slick" in their work...
Health Care. The alternative joins the call for insurance reform, which means eliminating the onerous "pre-existing condition" clauses insurance companies use to deny coverage. It also targets Medicare and Medicaid as the last great preserves of fee-for-service medicine. Price controls are rejected because they spawn cost shifting. The alternative would use a voucher system to move future beneficiaries into HMOs. Those seeking greater care would have to pay for it out of their own pockets...
...opposed publishing the piece unedited fought back, exhibiting appalling judgement. On the anniversary of Frug's death, they published a savage parody of her article in the "Revue" issue. No student was ever disciplined--administrators cited the First Amendment. More problematic to most observers was the environment which would spawn such insensitivity. Liberals charged that teaching methods, unchanged since the past century, were to blame...
...city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many as 36 atom bombs...