Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Crimson Tide to Hoya and Tar Heel, the identities of sports teams are tied to colorful and sometimes appalling nicknames...
...October 9, "Boyd's Eye View" cartoon depicts John Harvard stuck to a tar-baby labeled "South Africa." A tar baby is a racist symbol out of Southern slave-culture as well as an insulting term for a Black person. Its use in the cartoon is both inappropriate and offensive, and I hope that The Crimson will print an apology. Yongjin...
...playing a business game hacked into their opponents' computer to steal inside data. "We never had a meeting over whether it was right or wrong," said one of the hackers. Still, well- informed observers, like Virginia's Rosenblum, himself a business-school alumnus, argue, "It's not fair to tar Harvard M.B.A.s as being set apart from other M.B.A.s in ethical considerations...
Farm policy, in other words, is the tar baby of political economy through most of the non-Communist world: an intract-able mess that seems to get ever stickier. Communist nations have agricultural headaches too, but theirs stem from too little production caused mainly by a lack of incentives for farmers. The root problem in the free world is the exact opposite: high price supports and other subsidies have encouraged farmers to grow bigger crops than markets can absorb. In Western Europe, for example, agricultural output has been growing four times as fast as food consumption; in the U.S., farm...
...technical challenges were also substantial and often without precedent. Who knew, for instance, how to remove built-up layers of paint and coal tar from the statue's delicate 100-year-old copper interior? The Lehrer-McGovern construction-management company has had to manage a considerable logistical feat: on Liberty Island alone, they coordinate the work of four different architectural and engineering firms, dozens of individual contractors and, during the 2 1/2 years of construction, some 500 craftsmen and hard-hat workers...