Word: waging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aguilera: When it comes down to it, in order for Harvard to act, they need to have an incentive. During the hunger strike, during the Living Wage campaign [aimed at increasing wages for Harvard employees about a decade ago], during the divestment campaign, their reputation was at stake. As activists, that’s where we try to hit them. That’s why we’re in the middle of the quad, we’re sending press releases out to everyone, drawing attention to Harvard. Personally, I want to rid where I live of militarism...
...FURRY FRIENDS $1,900 Vietnamese fine - double the country's average annual wage - for possessing a hamster. Government officials say the rodents could spread disease $20 Black-market price for a hamster, a popular pet among Vietnamese in the Year...
...Baker isn't interested in just changing the way we write history; he wants to change our minds about what happened and what should have happened. He shows us a vain, bloodthirsty Winston Churchill overeager to wage war and not overly particular about bombing civilians. He shows us Franklin D. Roosevelt turning away European refugees and baiting the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. As a counterweight, Baker spotlights international pacifist movements, with Mohandas Gandhi as their principal spokesperson. Ultimately Baker appears to be making the argument that no violence is ever justifiable, even in self-defense, and that, in Gandhi...
...with our dinner plans to alleviate starving in Africa. HUDS might, of course, cut corners, reduce waste, and try making us pay for the food we eat but, in the end, students might have to accept that, between paying Harvard workers a “living wage,” the benefits of unlimited dining, and being, alas, attached to the global economy, greater dining variety is off the menu. And instead of trading insults over open-lists, we’d probably do better to dispatch some keen IOP-niks to lobby against ethanol subsidies in Washington...
...vague terms. Secrecy has “sexual connotations,” says Thomas S. Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. “What was it that your parents did at night to make kids? What does the national security state do to wage war?”Good question. But “Secrecy” doesn’t offer concrete answers. Instead, it just lets us know that there’s a whole lot out there that we don’t know. This isn’t a history...