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...hours listening to static, trying to tune in distant stations on my small AM radio. The results were seldom thrilling. On a typical night I could hear stations from exotic places like Philadelphia and Troy, New York. One night I tuned in Buffalo and nearly ruptured a vein with glee...
...hamstrung economic policy throughout his presidency. Republican candidates screamed in fear that they had lost a potentially crucial issue for the fall congressional elections. Democratic congressional leaders kept a promise not to gloat; they gravely commended the President's statesmanship. But lower-ranking Democrats could not hide their glee that at last they could silence G.O.P. gibes that they belong to the high-tax party...
That is, if those student groups are let into the market by Epps. By favoring old established groups like the Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Krokodiloes for performance space, Epps creates unnecessary friction and envy among student musical groups...
...decide on the artistic worth of one group over another? Is the Glee Club more deserving than a reading of Anna Akhmatova's poetry? Will the Undergraduate Council's next comedian be censored by a prudish colloquy of students and administrators? Calling for a distribution of space on the basis of artistic merit, a proposal only Senator Helms could love, has no place in a liberal university...
...have to charge "a couple cents more" to account for higher costs, O'Reilly said. The dolphin-free promise was matched on the same day by the two other major canners, Bumble Bee Seafoods and Van Camp Seafood, which sells Chicken of the Sea brand. Environmentalists responded with glee. "It was an incredibly wise and incredibly responsible action," said Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, who is a co-sponsor of a dolphin-protection bill. But August Felando of the American Tunaboat Association contended that the action would only serve to penalize the fishing fleet, which has improved its methods...