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...objective of the unique operation is to capture oil and gas from fissures on the ocean floor, helping to rid local beaches of a thick, gooey carpet of tar that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities...
...compromise. Any soul who had trekked to the original store in nearby Somerville could attest: Steve's was quite simply the best. At last, many lovers of the creamy treat thought, the pleasures of an extralarge" up of homemade "cin-ana"-mixed-with-Health-and-Reese'stopped-with-triple-thick-hot-fudge-and-granola were close to home. How wonderful! How delicious! How this will revolutionize our culinary existence...
...have a director who never saw any students." Jewett says, but adds immediately that the job is becoming more managerial and organizational with each new regulation from above and its resultant bureaucratic detail. Until the office goes computerized with the rest of the major administrative offices this spring, the thick files crammed with parental 1040 forms and financial data will continue to dominate operations...
...Brothers Inc. and First Boston, as well as three main law firms, along with three different public relations agencies. In all, the four companies are estimated to have spent $20 million on outside help of one sort or another. Was it money well spent? At one point in the thick of last week's battle, one investment banker observed of Bendix and Martin Marietta: "Both companies have wound up paying a premium for the stock of the other. It was madness...
Cohn is no Noah. Indeed, readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when...