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...about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran Trilogy for daylong sails, or the 65-ft. glass-bottomed boat Coral...
...games, thinking the unthinkable can involve much reading of the unreadable. The authors of this futurist fantasy, for example, cram their narrative with jawbreaking acronyms: FOSMEF for "Flag Officer Soviet Middle East Forces," STANAVFORLANT for "Standing Naval Force Atlantic." The plot is slowed by harrumphs: "Professional military men in the parliamentary democracies of the West are generally honest people, loyal to those they serve...
This is the third time in three years that Jory has run a kind of alternative Kentucky Derby called the Festival of New American Plays. Clearly, the seedling has become a sapling. It can be as much cram course as festival. This year, thanks to the prodigious efforts of the theater's staff and the resident actors, one could attend, within the space of two days, six plays and three workshop productions. Playwrights, like Thoroughbreds, are notoriously unpredictable. The best one can do is to spot a "natural...
After hearing of the trip's cancellation, both men quickly packed their bags and rushed to the airport. "I waited overnight but managed to cram into a plane to Los Angeles the next morning," Cuse said...
...lawyers went after the cram schools. Since they have no case there, the powers that be at the FTC might just decide not to publish the report at all," Weiss said...