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Reese has been studying fossil pygmy elephants and hippopotamuses in the Museum of Comparative Zoology collection. Jenkins said that Reese hoped to augment the museum collection of early Cyprus fauna through his excavations this summer...
...antimeter maid? It all goes back to 1968 when the town fathers installed 340 parking meters in the ten-block downtown section to augment the city's modest revenues. The meters did not produce much until five months ago when Whitehorse hired an energetic local girl, Valerie Matechuk, 26, to police the meters and hand out $2 tickets to overtime parkers. Hot-footing it around her circuit at least twice an hour, Valerie has so far issued thousands of dollars' worth of citations. In the process, downtown store owners complain, she has driven a lot of business away...
...purposes, the final push started at Monterey, when Jimi Hendrix first burned a guitar, or with Peter Townshend's first windmill chord. The notion of theatrics has expanded to the point where the average Jethro Tull show is half music and half theater. Something seems necessary to augment the music which for a lot of reasons has stopped undergoing radical changes in directions...
...never took it seriously, and I'm surprised to have to prove to anybody that Alice Cooper is no threat, merely the latest in a series of progressively more theatric rock performance. To call his performance antilife, when it is really an attempt to augment a medium that is in danger of stagnation, is to deny his innovative efforts, and is wildly paranoic to boot. Concern for society is one thing, witch hunting is another. Besides, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention were performing almost precisely the same things almost four years ago. Zappa's atrocities, as they were called...
Dragon Vujovic, who has the natural talent to augment this line extremely well, it still not ready to play an entire game after returning from Europe out of shape and a week late, but will see considerable action on the line...