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...about what is going on in each of them than any other member, including the chairman. Michigan's Romney refers to him as "the busiest man in the Senate," and the label fits. Much of his time goes into what he calls "our unseen work": the unheralded, rarely acknowledged chore of shepherding a bill through subcommittee, committee, and finally the full chamber...
...merger comes off, Bassine will have quite a chore. Korvette's furniture division sags with losses; its supermarkets barely break even, though Ferkauf says they are now "trending upwards." Privately, Ferkauf concedes that his empire was built too fast on a shaky foundation. The business was also damaged by its taking on some expensive airs. It tried simultaneously to upgrade its merchandise, add costly services, dress up its stores, and make expensive pushes into such distant cities as Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore. As a result, it hit wall-to-wall competition from established stores and supermarkets...
...toilsome chore of untaming their pampered playmate gives the movie tension, much of it spelled out in pictures more than equal to the rich lion lore contained in the book. In one sequence, an embarrassed Elsa is bullied by a small wart hog, and still cannot understand that she will soon have to kill in order to survive. Later, she lies yawning atop the Land Rover, unmoved by a young bachelor lion laying under a tree. Before Elsa mates successfully, reports the surrogate Mrs. Adamson, "we suffered all the agony of parents whose teen-age daughter...
...took Sinyavsky and Daniel, however, to provide the real departure. "Do you plead guilty?" asked Prosecutor Oleg P. Temushkin. "Not at all," replied Sinyavsky in defiance of standard Soviet legal response. "Neither in full nor in part," echoed Daniel. That left the prosecution with the rare chore of actually proving its case...
...muted. An average of hardly more than 100,000 men a year were called, only a small percentage of the total eligible to serve. Deferments, for school or for skill, were easy to get. American youngsters regarded the draft as either a remote threat or, at worst, a necessary chore that might produce a rewarding tour of duty overseas (where some 46% of all U.S. soldiers are now stationed) or enable them to acquire a skill that would later be useful in civilian life...