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...authorial wink. In one of the running jokes in the series, Maturin, far more comfortable on land than on sea, frequently doesn't understand what his shipmates are saying. Occasionally he feigns ignorance. When Aubrey uses the term "shaped the mast," Maturin replies, "Before this it was amorphous, I collect? Shapeless?" Aubrey misses the tease in the question: "What a fellow you are, Stephen. Shaping a mast means getting it ready to be struck...
...spring to do business." He details an elaborate plan to tap U.S. aid funds for low-interest loans that would be used to transport New York City garbage to Haiti, where it would be processed into mulch to fertilize plants bioengineered to provide high-quality paper pulp. "We could collect $38 a ton for the garbage," claims Womack. "We'd make a bundle, and the government could get enough to pay the whole army's salaries...
...future. In some ways, the issues at hand are old ones--what to do about the current policy of rent control and how best to balance the development of businesses against the needs of residential neighborhoods. But the city, approaching the limit of the property taxes it can collect under state law, is also about to face new economic challenges. The city council will have to consider carefully its spending priorities, and must seek to maximize the efficiency of existing programs...
Does he have one of those multi-colored clicker pens: I used to collect different kinds. There's ten-color pen, a four-color pen, and one which they sell at the Coop which has all sparkly colors. I had them all, but then I lost them...
Working on a daily basis during the November peak season, groundskeepers collect nearly one hundred tons of leaves each fall for composting, Gogan said...