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...gave him a limpy leg, his physician told him to assign his hurt limb to as few chores as possible. So Laura Roach took over the fruit stand, as well as a barbecue pit in summer, and Eugene Roach bolted to the wall nearest his gas pumps a custom-made checkerboard table bearing the legend IT'S YOUR MOVE. And Eugene Roach sat down...
...eerie how Madson several years ago seemed to prophesy events when he wrote about earlier eras: "For this was alien land, not only in physical appearance but in its harsh rejection of familiar custom; it forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever." Sometimes it seems to Madson that the prairie is throwing off the predatory creatures who have filled it and damaged it. That could be the ultimate irony. The U.S. is exhausting its topsoil and a few decades down the road could suffer from food shortages, not surpluses...
...current set of rules will be available to any student who originally enrolled in September, 1984 or before, regardless of when they graduate" if the Faculty votes for the proposed honors system, said Marquand. "It's the Harvard custom for there to be reasonable amount of grandparenting whenever rules change," he added...
...limousine provides, have a special problem because part of what we sell is privates to individuals such as corporate heads or celebrities. The rear portion of limousines are custom tined for that purpose," he said...
Meese testified that he had not excused himself from these meetings because that had not been the custom at the White House. Beyond that, he said, the meetings were merely to "review" appointments and McKean's name had been first mentioned at them by Michael Deaver, another presidential aide. Asked about a written agenda prepared by McKean in which he noted that he wanted to talk to Meese about both his appointment and the repayment of the personal loans, Meese conceded only that his attendance at the meetings had been "inopportune...