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Knowles should be held to his assurance that the concentration will be approved this year. Let's cut the bureaucratic red tape and have this concentration passed before the end of the semester...
...room gave a party the first week of classes and invited everyone they knew--black tie only. They spent the better part of two days cutting out construction paper stars to put on their ceiling, creating a party mix tape and decorating the room with hats and different colored lightbulbs. They even found a strobe light. Most upperclass folk I know still have an unpacked box or two sitting on their common room floor...
...will." Bush left the agency politically orphaned when he failed to appoint a new director for almost a year after his 1988 election. During that time survivors of Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake blasted the agency for arriving late and gumming up assistance efforts with red tape...
Recycling is a new frontier for technical innovation. New processes, for instance, are needed to remove contaminants. Sorted solid wastes often include contaminants that gum up recycling systems, such as clear plastic tape on envelopes or sticky yellow Post-its on office paper. A single ceramic cap from a bottle of the Dutch-brewed Grolsch beer can contaminate an entire batch of green glass. "We haven't begun to tap the potential for technical innovation in recycling," says Lloyd Leonard, legislative director for the League of Women Voters...
Long before the invention of the tape recorder, Mitchell managed to catch cadences of speech and pin down quirks of personality. A bearded lady refuses to let the doctors examine her: "When they get their hands on a monsterosity the medical profession don't know when to stop." A man who calls himself a king of the Gypsies is asked his age: "Between forty-five and seventy-five . . . My hair's been white for years and years, and I got seventeen grandchildren, and I bet I'm an old, old man." (His story was so enchanting that a Broadway musical...