Word: runaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just barely--about one-ninth of the Webster Groves High School student body. Suddenly an overhead projector flips on, two amplified acoustic guitars chime in and 160 youthful voices scream, "Here's a story! It's sad but true! About a girl that I once knew!... Keep away from Runaround...
According to Giavanna Munafo, director of the women's center at Dartmouth, school policy there provides for a Title IX runaround that might allow a program like WILL, but only with the approval of Dartmouth's administration...
...delays, no runaround, nothing except the good service that was lacking in my interactions with the repair center. I certainly hope that my case is an isolated incident. I fear, however, that I am not the only one who has had such problems, and I would like to see action taken to prevent similar problems in the future. Ragan E. Buckley...
Still, as the Roswell controversy becomes more heated, Washington has been under increasing pressure to resolve it. At the urging of New Mexico Representative Steven Schiff, who complained about a government "cover-up" of Roswell and the "runaround" he was getting from the Pentagon, the General Accounting Office announced in January 1994 that it would launch a hunt for any documents related to the "incident." That announcement was noted in the Washington Post under the headline "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe: Bodies of space voyagers said to have disappeared...
...singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (wild man Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about two guys waiting in line for nothing to happen: Samuel Beckett rewritten for Simpson-Bruckheimer...