Word: cullings
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Candidates are well aware of this as the Nov. 2 elections draw closer, and are trying to cull support from community groups, neighborhoods, and wherever they can find an extra vote...
...despite my hermitic tendencies, I do know some people. And while generally just heavy, my address book occasionally comes in handy. It works well as a paperweight, and it's a good source from which to cull dinner companions. So last Monday night, I hauled it out. Scouring its pages, I dialed every number of any acquaintance with whom I might have even the slightest desire to dine. I must have called a good, oh, seven people. Each and every one had dinner plans...
Wolves are coming back into the Moscow region," a friend remarked last week as we sat in a village just outside the city, watching one of the heavier snowfalls of the winter. "The local administration just west of here is sending out hunters to cull them...
Swindle spent eight years in the Reagan Administration as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and state director of the Farmers Home Administration He was also the first national leader of Ross Perot's United We Stand America. He believes his credentials give him the experience to cull useless bureaucracy and save tax dollars. He also supports tax cuts and trimming Medicare's growth rate...
...leering by. Maybe it's character building to be reminded that we aren't the only predators on the planet, that we're pretty puny ones, in fact, compared with those that do their meat-processing without the aid of metal implements. Maybe, if there were no bears to cull the human population, the wilderness would be overrun by AARP tour groups and camcorder-bearing Japanese...