Word: withered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you didn't infer this from the subtitle, Poisoned Ivy promises a pretty big story. After all, few would believe mere mortals could ruin Harvard Law School. To make even the ivy wither from a monolith of such enormity would require divine intervention at the very least...
...every case, "ending" welfare will end up costing money -- mostly to create government-subsidized jobs for those who can't find other work. Since the law requires that any new government spending be financed wither by cuts in existing programs or through new taxes, all four schemes reach into current spending on anti-poverty programs. A popular target is aid to legal immigrants, with provisions for the deepest cuts in the House Republican bill and the Mainstream Forum bill (backed by moderate and conservative Democrats). Talent-Faircloth also puts a ceiling on all welfare spending except Medicaid, while the House...
...other proudly sporting purple and gold. The Crimson and Lampoon waged war on each other with fiery zeal. Thefts, kidnappings and public embarrassment were their tools in a bloody, century-old feud. The raw hate hovering in the atmosphere between Bow and Plympton streets made dogs howl and plants wither...
...near Pikes Peak, and at Battle Mountain near San Luis, Colorado; and from molybdenum at Questa in northern New Mexico and at the vast Amax mine near Leadville. The hawk's-eye view shows the wreckage of mountains, dead land that will not revegetate, soured rivers, towns left to wither when mineral prices dropped and distant corporate directors cut their losses...
...Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp) deeds a great English manor to handsome young Lord Orlando (Tilda Swinton) on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." The lad takes the monarch's admonition to heart and, miraculously, ages not at all from that day to this. Orlando is a fellow in love with love -- ever eager to die upon a kiss, but destined to live forever apart from those mortals he cherishes. In 1610 he falls for a fickle Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey). One day, a century and a half later, he wakes...