Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic National only last month to end some 40 percent of its dealings with Russian banks. All of that will inevitably provide fertile ground for speculation as to the killers' motive, but until they're caught - if they're caught - speculation is all that...
...response to a proposition to make him a candidate for an illustrious Harvard accolade, George Bernard Shaw offers a modest proposal: "If Harvard would celebrate its 300th anniversary by burning itself to the ground and sowing its site with salt, the ceremony would give me the greatest satisfaction...
...your way to class today, observe the atomized "community" here at Harvard College. Look at that girl you see every day on the way to the Science Center who stares at the ground as if it were talking to her. You know the one I'm talking about. Or see if anyone holds the door open for you on the way into Sanders Theater...
...classmates, he helped construct a massive tower of wood that would be torched before the Thanksgiving-week football game against rival University of Texas. In October, Fernando pitched in for "the Cut," early-morning trips to nearby fields to fell some 5,000 oaks. Afterward students broke ground on the edifice, pounding two thick pine trunks end on end 10 ft. into the earth to serve as a central support. Last week came "the Push." With thousands of other students in hard hats and coveralls, he worked around the clock to hoist the logs and bind them into place...
...hallowed tradition had had previous problems. The pile collapsed twice before, most recently in 1994, after a heavy rain soaked the ground beneath the base logs. That's on top of reports over the years of cuts and concussions incurred during construction. "People are saying these students gave their lives for the cause, but their lives were clearly taken," says biology professor Hugh Wilson, who leads Aggies Against Bonfire, a faculty and student group. "I'd like to see the bonfire abolished as an institutional enterprise...