Word: boxful
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...seaside town," Shoemaker explains, but that means there's "not much opportunity to generate revenue." Tourism is the biggest industry, but that's not paying the bills, she says, especially with sales-tax dollars sliding during the recession. Projects that would have brought in more revenue, such as big-box stores, conference centers and hotels, have been rejected by the citizens and voted down by the council. "The costs have continued to exceed revenue," she says. "It caught up with...
...small tables. While the bar hasn't prepared anything special for inauguration weekend - besides an extended hour deal - they expect a huge crowd, of both regulars and passerbys. If you're seeking out a hearty burger, a stimulating game of darts, or a bustling joint with an iTunes juke box and multiple gigantic televisions tuned to a variety of sports channels, stop by with a group of friends...
...theater that he made himself, of the battle in The White Company, the Arthur Conan Doyle drama of a staunch medieval company of soldiers, which N.C. had illustrated. The old playroom castle still sits in Andy's studio, and the toy soldiers are billeted in a light box in his bedroom. "I've always loved miniature things," he says. "Maybe that's why I turned to the fine technique of tempera...
...director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association—that state law prohibits officers from demanding identification when dealing with civil infractions—is simply not true. Other worries, including those such as who will print the physical tickets, that current citation books lack a check-off box for marijuana possession, or that officers will be unable to identify “an ounce,” are simply laughable. Law enforcers in Massachusetts are trained to deal with life-and-death scenarios; they should have enough initiative and creativity to improvise physical tickets in the short...
...foremost defenders of voting rights. He notably argued Reynolds v. Sims, a landmark Supreme Court case that ended the rural South's dominance in state politics, and his office challenged the exclusion of blacks from juries and represented black death-row inmates convicted by all-white panels. "The jury box and the ballot box," he said, "are the only places where citizens can tell their government what to do and the government has to listen...