Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of trying to restore order, local police and National Guardsmen ; apparently joined in, carting off garbage bags full of booty. British tourist Simon Schiller said he watched while a St. Croix policeman drove straight through the center of the violence in Christiansted with a brand-new refrigerator, still in its carton, in the back of his truck. To add to the chaos, when the hurricane buffeted a local prison, 200 inmates escaped and joined the free...
...pollution-control management program was reduced from three people to one. Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill contingency plan "the greatest piece of maritime fiction since Moby Dick." But he had approved the document...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, Robert Hughes, Walter % Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...woman is intelligent--and, worse, refuses to lay aside her intellect in worshipful reverence for the male ego--she should be immediately put in her place. How? Of course--deprecate her appearance! Call her not only ugly, but also give her the scarlet brand, the ultimate insult--call her "fat," as many did in response to her initial sarcastic dismissal of "Ollie," the prototypical Harvard Man--which is not only ludious, but is also illustrative of the attitude that appearance, and especially ideal body weight, is a key determinant of value in a woman...
...will try to make a brand new start of it tomorrow against Hartford. Unfortunately, the Crimson will be without the services of Captain Paul Baverstock for the remainder of the season. The sturdy center midfielder--who led Harvard in scoring last year--tore ligaments in his left knee in a preseason scrimmage against an English all-star team...