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Some things are just too low tech to last. What could be more old-fashioned than wrestling a postage stamp out of its perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is now headed the way of the penny postcard. Last week the U.S. Postal Service introduced EXTRAordinary Stamps, a line of peel-and-stick, self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history." The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for 30 days...
...particular, nurtures hopes of eventually joining the European Community. That remains years away, but a halfway step might be membership in the European Free Trade Association, which has special tariff agreements with the European Community. Such moves would come at the expense of traditional Comecon commitments. Given the glue that binds Eastern Europe -- including everything from heavily subsidized Soviet energy supplies and raw materials to inefficient plants unable to compete in world markets -- the dissolution of Comecon is certain to be a slow, clumsy affair...
Although there are several characters in the show, Jeeves, or Wooster, is always the narrator. The humor that Duke uses in portraying them is definitely the glue that keeps this show together. Both Jeeves'--and Wooster's--running commentary on the present action keeps the audience roaring...
Some methods of capturing and killing rodents concern animal-rights activists, who argue that traps such as glue boards, which kill rodents slowly, are not humane...
While Baverstock was supposed to be the anchor in the midfield, junior Nick Gates was supposed to be the glue that held the backfield together...