Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During a rehearsal at which aides threw tough questions at him, Reagan was asked to explain his farm policy. "I don't know," he answered with a chuckle. "It changes from day to day." Turning serious, Reagan dug into his homework. When one assistant produced a 318-page stack of regulations, covering 57 categorical grant programs, that the Administration has reduced to six pages applying to nine block grants, Reagan grinned broadly. "Let me see those," he said, his actor's eyes detecting a fine prop. He effectively displayed the contrasting piles of paper at the press conference...
Minutes later, however, the manager found them stuffed behind a stack of egg cartons...
...harpist and flutist play pastoral music while a military aide announces each guest to the press pool. Actors Robert Stack and Roger Moore stir the cameras and pencils...
...Phoenix, which didn't leave him much more to do on a sunny Sunday morning. The Intern and his companion were sitting in a cafe where everybody was unnaturally quiet. It was an outdoor cafe and there were tiny birds in the plants. The Intern scanned the stack of papers at his feet and thought about doing the crossword puzzle. Eugene T. Maleska wanted him to guess what one-sixth of a drachma was in Roman numerals, but the Intern had little desire to. The Intern ordered another croissant from a waitress who told him to cut the crappy insincere...
...characterize a Harvard student who practically subsidizes Baker Library with $200 library fines, but who has been hired by investment bankers at Morgan Stanley? Who tells dirty jokes, but makes her roommates say the punchlines? Who loves to take showers but has been known to stack 13 beer kegs in her bathtub? Photo sums it up: "I think I'm sorta normal...