Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing student-volunteer recycling program in Harvard's dorms does not turn a profit. The bulk of the paper collected in bins in dorm entryways, baled by student volunteers and driven to recyclers, is newspaper, which is difficult to de-ink and produces low quality recycled paper...
...hulled by the antitank ammunition used for bear or moose (59 moose no longer menace us as the result of a recent three-day shooting season). So most of us stay out of the woods during the year's most beautiful season. Once, during deer season, I rounded a turn on a logging road while running with my dogs. A couple of heroes were sitting in a pickup truck, drinking beer. One had his rifle trained on my midsection. If he had killed me, he would have received a severe talking-to from the authorities. No one I mentioned this...
Indian leftists counter that Gandhi is leaving India's vast numbers of poor people in the lurch. They argue that government resources are being diverted to help the well-off minority, who in turn are frittering away vital funds on luxury goods. Rajni Kothari, a widely respected social scientist, is worried that the middle class is dangerously insensitive to the desperately poor. Says he: "There is a disturbing decline in compassion, in charity, in pity...
...many Americans the deal was an unsettling reminder of the decline of ^ U.S. financial dominance and Japan's simultaneous rise. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman cited the transaction as evidence that the U.S. must redouble its efforts to become more competitive. Said he: "This year when they turn on the lights of that Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, we Americans are going to have to come to grips with the reality that this great national celebration is actually occurring on Japanese property...
Resisting the temptation to turn their child into an early overachiever, a surprising number of parents are consciously delaying their youngster's entrance to kindergarten even when age eligible. This is known, quaintly, as redshirting, after the common university practice of keeping athletes out of games to allow them an extra year of playing eligibility. To some teachers, redshirting children is necessary because all too many kindergartens are more concerned with academics than with the emotional and physical development of youngsters. To others, the practice is not much better than coddling...