Word: useful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college rules, 77 percent opposed regulating visits by the opposite sex to their dorms, while 16 percent backed parietal regulations. Sixty-eight percent opposed colleges regulating use of alcohol in the dorms, while 25 percent supported rules...
...village is a saying widely heard during the Cultural Revolution two decades ago: PREPARE FOR WAR, PREPARE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS, SERVE THE PEOPLE. Wu makes no apologies. "Of course I know the slogan's origins," he says. "But there is nothing wrong with those words. We should use more of what Mao taught. His themes were self- reliance and sacrifice. I say to our leaders, more of that and less riding around in fancy cars...
...Give me a break," says the man. (My hip translator is a Berkeley graduate.) "Despite our tradition of filial piety, most of us treat our elderly relatives like crap when they are alive. Then, when they die, we feel guilty and build shrines to their memory and use valuable land to bury them. It's all nonsense. It's all hypocrisy -- as hypocritical as this wedding...
...wandered into the room. "What if the man who owns the fields employs workers so that all he does is give orders? Then the owner could be causing those crops to be < grown in his fields even though he isn't doing the actual work. Then you could use the word grown...
Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...