Word: systemize
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With the Ryder truck being auctioned off on eBay for $80,000 or more, good sense says the driver has to be worth at least half that much. But Enos, 38, is still putting in days as the voting-system manager in West Palm Beach. I don't really understand what he has to do with the voting-system mess down there, but it does seem like a good idea for Spillane to be scouting out other work...
GRANTED. JUAN RAUL GARZA, 44, the first federal prisoner scheduled for execution since 1963; a six-month reprieve; by President Clinton; in Terre Haute, Ind. Citing racial and geographic disparities in the federal death-penalty system, Clinton passed the fate of the convicted murderer to the next Administration...
...July of this year, I began publishing a serial novel at my website, stephenking.com The idea was one episode a month, pay as you go...and pay by the honor system. My inspiration was the newspaper vendors in New York City during the first half of the century. Many of those hired for the job were blind, because the distribs felt that even slightly dishonest people wouldn't steal from a blind newsboy. My experiment has far from run its course, but the first phase of it concludes later this month, when Part 6 of The Plant...
...there anything about the coverage of Steve's Excellent Adventure that bothers me? Probably the implication that by using the honor system, I was either displaying a naive belief in the honesty of my fellow man or (worse) indulging in a bit of electronic bungee jumping. Neither one. By offering the story in installments and promising to pull the plug if payments fell off, I felt that I had armed myself with a stick to protect my carrot. It worked, too. Part 5 payments fell steeply, but only after I announced the venture was nearing its end. I'm afraid...
...Bush will take home the prize, not everyone is happy about the way he won it. Newspaper editorial boards, pundits and politicians alike are wringing their hands over the confusion this election has wrought - and some go so far as to call for an end to the electoral college system altogether. The process, some argue, is outdated and counterintuitive...