Word: trash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city. We approached what looked like the back door of a restaurant. Garbage littered the sidewalk in front of it, in order, Alexis explained, to prevent non-members from finding the club. I discovered where Tommy's Lunch got the idea to use Bow Street as a trash can; it signals the chic which door...
...repair is winning ever more converts. People seem increasingly willing to channel the refuse of daily existence-cans, bottles, newspapers-into recycling systems. Some restaurants report more calls for doggie bags for taking home leftovers. A few garbage collectors complain about a decrease in good recyclable items in the trash. Observers report an increase in the number of otherwise genteel people scouting curbside junk heaps for usable stuff such as carpets and furniture. Many people, it is said, are even learning to turn out lights when they...
...complaints recently--no one has even complained to the bartender we send around to pick up trash in the neighborhood," Barry Bornstein, treasurer of Thursday Afternoon, told the licensing board...
...other countries," Filartiga says, "is sold over here." Filartiga often returns to this metaphor of his nation as dumping grounds for the world, observing that Nazi criminals flocked to Paraguay for refuge following World War II. Somoza likewise retreated to Paraguay temporarily last summer. "My country is the trash heap of the world," Filartiga states calmly, but his thick lenses magnify the pain in his eyes...
...result he certainly did not intend: a surge of patriotism that has made the American people more united than they have been on any issue in two decades. The shock of seeing the U.S. flag burned on the streets of Tehran, or misused by embassy attackers to carry trash, has jolted the nation out of its self-doubting "Viet Nam syndrome." Worries about America's ability to influence events abroad are giving way to anger about impotence; the country now seems willing to exert its power. But how can that power be brought to bear against an opponent immune...