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...edges of rectangle have also been painted and repainted again and again. In places the blue clearly lies on top of the background stripes, in others the red and yellow creep into the rectangle, and in some the blues, reds, and yellows dissolve into each other, so that it’s impossible to tell if the stripes are on the same plane as the rectangle, pass behind it, or even jump in front...
...Bush budget assumes a "patch" to fix the AMT bracket creep, but only for this coming year. In other words, while denouncing the AMT's growing burden as a terrible problem, the Bush budget's long-term numbers count on it. When asked by TIME if keeping Americans from creeping into the AMT would cost the Treasury a lot, Bolten said: "It would increase the deficit. I don't have exact numbers on how large, and I believe even if the Congress were to decide to patch the AMT indefinitely, we would still show a very substantially declining deficit path...
...effect of all that technology can be seen in the upward creep of average scores recorded by the Professional Bowlers Association. And like innovations in other sports--composite golf clubs, big-headed tennis rackets--they are starting to catch on among amateurs as well. The major U.S. manufacturers sold more than a million high-tech balls last year...
...department’s brand new buildings, called CGIS Knafel and CGIS South, have doors so heavy that only those aforementioned jocks can wrench them open. Note to the Gov department: rolling boulders to block the doorway would be easier, and they might fit the facade better.Seven: De-creep Cabot House. What do manual elevators and Quadlings have in common? A tendency to get stuck in less-than-ideal places. Combine the two and you’ll recreate the plight of Cabot E-entryway residents and their creepy manual elevators that often get stuck between floors when Quadlings don?...
...fact, in almost all aspects of modern Harvard life, vestiges of Harvard’s past creep in like Charles Dickens’ first ghost of Christmas who comes to scare the Scrooge. In a time when the world around us is changing faster than Paris Hilton’s boyfriends (consider the internet, DVD’s, and the recent cloning of a dog), I for one find it particularly comforting to know that my own college experience will be almost hauntingly similar to that of the men who walked the halls of Sever and Emerson over 50 years...