Word: tars
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...Attack in Illinois The Incumbent governor and his Republican challenger compete to tar each other with the sins of the state's disgraced former chief executive
...Mary’s. The Crimson is not alone in facing a strenuous schedule to begin its season, as other teams, such as Ivy-rival Yale (2-3-1, 0-0-0 Ivy) were pitted against perennial powerhouses like North Carolina. The Bulldogs not only lost to the Tar Heels 3-0, but also appeared at number three on ESPN’s infamous Sportscenter Top-10 list for allowing North Carolina to score within the first three seconds of the game, the fastest goal in NCAA women’s soccer history...
...become a global PC heavyweight. "Amelio is doing exactly what needs to be done," says Joseph Ho, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Hong Kong. And if Lenovo gets some breathing room, maybe He, the chief technology officer, can focus on learning how to tell a Tar Heel from a Blue Devil...
...coal mining town, which had been 90% or more white, unable to come to grips with its new demographics."It becomes discriminatory in effect, if not in intent," said David Vaida, an attorney from nearby Allentown who is a local counsel on the lawsuit. "I'm not willing to tar anybody who is in favor of this as a racist, but what I do know is that the effect is going to be racist...
...really important is not etymologically what it means, but the effect it has." And that is a constantly evolving standard. Witness the debate over who can and can't use the N-word. McKean says that the next print version of the Oxford American Dictionary will note that tar baby can have derogatory connotations. Which may help public figures avoid becoming ensnared by Br'er Fox more than a century after he set his little trap...