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...building would make a lobbyist drool. The latest and fanciest edifice in Washington's central commercial district is 1801 L Street, with a red marble exterior and a gold-plated price: $33 a square foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucracy: Putting on The Ritz | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania's Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry points out that St. Paul's account of Jesus' appearances after his resurrection (I Corinthians 15) was written only two decades after the events and drew on prior accounts. Says Rodgers: "This is the sort of data that historians of antiquity drool over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Mother: Sure I sold it, but once I saw how cute it was with that disproportionately large head and all that drool, it caused me to make funny faces and gurgling sounds. I decided then that I just had to keep...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Cabbage Patch Currency | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...beginning of a passionate romance. There were problems, of course; I was 20, she was well past 70. Conflicts arose. There were times when I wanted to go to a ball game, and she wanted to sit at home and drool on the cat. Times when I wanted to go out dancing, to drink from the cup of life, and she wanted to sit at home and drool...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...ACROSS this frothy bowl of milk and cornflakes we call our nation, millions of average Americans are twitching and hopping as they stroll down our streets, mouths silently opening and closing, little pockets of drool collecting on their shirt-fronts. Hygienic concerns aside, just what the hell is wrong with these people? Disease? Demonic possession? Gastro-intestinal cramps...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

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