Word: papered
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...tinker with the layout and the format but essentially the paper is going to remain generally the same," he said...
...have given new meaning to keeping up appearances. Why force us to watch their melodrama? We're being asked to believe that "they" are staying married, that "they" are moving to New York, when by many people's definitions, "they" are doing neither. The headline in one New York paper was HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, as the President returned to Shepherdstown, W.Va., for the Israeli-Syrian talks. Among their possessions, you could see a couple of rugs, a kitchen table and a large bed. Don Imus wondered whether the plastic would ever come off the mattress. I wondered whether there...
...paper the changes are minor, such as allowing more people-to-people contacts. But at the State Department, in the business community and even in Congress, sentiment is growing to abandon the 40-year-old embargo that has failed to dislodge Castro. Farmers, businessmen and tourists are clamoring for greater access to the island, as other countries usurp a natural U.S. market. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 53% of Americans surveyed said the U.S. should open diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...practice in the countryside--from just one household dumps the same amount of dioxins, furans and other chlorine-containing pollutants into the air as the burning of trash by a state-of-the-art municipal waste incinerator serving tens of thousands of homes. Just about all types of garbage--paper, plastics, food--emit the toxic pollutants. And toxic they are; even tiny amounts of dioxins and related burning by-products may increase cancer risk...
Even though the Bears pose a greater challenge than the Bulldogs, the Crimson outmatches both teams handily on paper. Much taller than most of the other teams in the nation, Harvard should be able to outrebound the much smaller Yale and Brown...