Word: protocols
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Since his arrival at the Newell Boathouse, Buckland has been taken under the wing of Harvard heavyweight Master of Protocol Malcolm Howard, who just before his sophomore year suffered what was reported as a “pre-season off-water incident”—an assault at the hands of two members of Northeastern crew who were subsequently arrested for their actions...
...Harvard Varsity Lightweights’ 2004-05 LP, or Lightweight Protocol, Kummer is the “lighter, but by no means lesser” equivalent of the heavies’ Master of Protocol, responsible for ensuring the team’s compliance with the ancient, yet arbitrary constitution of Newell Boathouse. In boathouse religion, he is the high priest; in boathouse justice, he is judge, jury and executioner; in the boathouse’s royal court, he is the honored jester...
...continuity of the status quo is paramount, and anything smacking of the impolite or the newfangled runs afoul of protocol, which proscribes that forbidden by precedent, such as tanning on the docks, as well as anything that peeves Kummer...
...Murray river, and the Coalition touting a $A2 billion water fund to expand water recycling and efficient irrigation infrastructure. But to the concern of many scientists, crises like salinity and biodiversity loss have barely been mentioned. And despite Labor's promise to sign Australia up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse emissions and increase renewable energy use, climate change has also struggled to stir voters. "I think once they've done water and the Tasmanian forests, they're almost exhausted," says one senior scientist. After leading the world in climate-change awareness in the late 1980s, Australians now lag behind...
Dorm Crew workers manned the stations until the start of the academic year, when they turned the job over to outside contractors. Despite being swamped, the distributors say they work to cater to students’ demands and busy schedules, and have developed modes of organization and protocol necessary for efficiently retrieving articles. Some even stay open past regular hours of operation...