Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Senate passed the District of Columbia Appropriations Act. You might think that would be a boring piece of legislation. You would be wrong. For buried in the endless clauses authorizing such spending items as $867 million for education and $5 million to promote the adoption of foster children was Section 6001: Superfund Recycling Equity. It had nothing to do with the District of Columbia, nor appropriations, nor "equity" as it is commonly defined...
...Instead Section 6001 was inserted in the appropriations bill by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, to take the nation's scrap-metal dealers off the hook for millions of dollars in potential Superfund liabilities at toxic-waste sites. In doing so, Lott had the support of colleagues in both parties...
First-years trying to section for expository writing classes were unable to access the program at certain times through...
Students trying to access fall semester grade reports or section for courses on-line yesterday found slow servers and error messages at the College web sites...
Since the sectioning deadline was 10 p.m. yesterday, many first-years were forced to visit the Expos office on Prescott St. to section for class...