Word: adding
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Appointed by Rudenstine earlier this month, the committee--comprised entirely of scholars from outside Harvard--will serve as an ad hoc group to help define the Institute's academic focus in coming years...
...mounted a fierce campaign of lobbying against an amendment to an agriculture spending bill currently before the Senate that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Mexico and Canada. Relaxing restrictions would lead to the import of killer counterfeit drugs, the PhRMA warns in a full-page ad in Wednesday's Washington Post. Not only that, "the importation of prescription drugs also means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their way into American medicine cabinets." But critics believe they're simply covering up for price-gouging, and have adapted the amendment to allow for greater FDA screening...
FreeCar.com in Los Angeles, plans to offer ad-covered cars for two years, scot-free. Competition is so intense that when Esquire magazine spoofed the auto-ad idea last April and set up a website where people could sign up to be drivers, enough folks took it seriously that FreeCar.com bought the site for $25,000 to add to its database...
...were a condom ad, Ali--the perfect wrap. Would you still do it?" I ask. He says there's no way he's driving around in a condom. A pedestrian stares at Ali's car, looking like she's already had a scoop or six. "How about this deal, Ali?" I ask. "You get paid $400 to drive around doing nothing, and I get paid to ask you stupid questions?" It's America, says a smiling Ali, who grew up in Iran. "That's why people come here." He hits the gas, and we're like two nuts...
Divorced New York dermatologist Paul Dantzig, 52, took out a personal ad for a wife, promising $200,000 to the woman he eventually marries...