Word: extras
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Though most students left immediately, HUPD officials said they took extra precautions to ensure that everyone got out safely...
...idea what to expect," said HUPD spokesperson Peggy McNamara. "We were providing extra preventative security for the building and its occupants...
...have hated daylight-saving time since the 153rd time it was explained to me. I hate the useless mnemonic device (Why can't you "spring back" or "fall ahead"?). I hate getting caught in that grating conversation that starts with "Does that mean I get an extra hour of sleep or have to wake up an hour early?" I hate unnecessarily complicating something as simple as the time. Daylight-saving time costs this country $100 billion a year in missed meetings and wasted labor reprogramming VCRs. That figure, for those wondering, was calculated by taking the number $100 billion...
What my campaign needed, I decided, was an enemy, someone to rally against. At first I heard that daylight saving was started by the barbecue lobby, trying to claim an extra hour of grilling time. But most people said it was the farmers. Being Jewish, I don't know any farmers, so I called Susan Peery, managing editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She told me that farmers actually protested daylight saving because it messed with nature and interrupted their milking schedule. So now I like farmers. I'm trying to do some coalition building here...
...police looked on as Mugabe supporters beat opposition protesters with pickaxe handles and barbed-wire whips, prompting opposition leaders to warn that the country was on the verge of civil war. That fear is underscored by Mugabe's apparent willingness to ignore the courts and intimidate his opponents by extra-legal means. But it is Zimbabwe's electorate that bears the cost of its president's policies, and Mugabe may be facing that most uncomfortable of symptoms for a strongman: Voters appear to have stopped following the president's orders...