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...concern is that the Highlands neighborhood could be accessed by the industrial area known as the Quadrangle, and there is no design buffer zone between the neighborhood and the industrial area," said committee member George Spartichino...
...found the Au Bon Pain's supervisor's behavior appropriate not because the kids were obnoxious, but because I assumed they were up to no good. Black, inner-city kids--obviously not well-groomed Harvard students. And the fact that the manager was a minority only served as a buffer against looking at my own racism...
...result has been a buildup of unsold stock, which now amounts to an estimated 1 billion bottles, or more than four years' worth of sales, compared with a normal buffer stock of less than three years. By reducing the grape harvest by a third, the producers are aiming for 15 million fewer bottles. Against current surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high...
...where other people quailed before the mighty typesetter, I loved it. I figured out what all the weird leading keys on the side of the keyboard actually meant and could fix the buffer with a good whack to the side. Some of my happiest memories of high school are of working amidst the smell of developer fluid...
...modest. On a lot across from the Aware Woman Center for Choice, which performs abortions, two portable toilets sprouted. They were put there by Operation Rescue, the militant pro-life organization that had bought the property in part to demonstrate near the clinic without violating a court-ordered buffer zone. Soon, locals knew, video cameras would appear -- toted by nearly every actor in the coming passion play: pro-lifers and pro-choicers taping each other, police taping both and TV-news teams taping everybody. "There's probably more money spent on camera equipment than anything else," joked Melbourne police captain...