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...many doubt that more indoor space would lead to less theft, noting that bike owners may just opt for convenience anyway.“Many people don’t use the sheltered, lighted bike racks we have right next to the guard’s office, preferring to hitch their bikes to parking meters out on DeWolfe Street, causing trouble on the sidewalks and exposing their bikes to the elements, high-speed sidewalk snowplows, and to predators, but keeping them handy,” Kirshner says. “So you would have to ask whether people would...
...Tuna has run into a hitch in trying to take its campaign nationwide. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)--which regulates such marketing efforts--has been sitting on the proposal for the campaign. The government, which has been criticized by environmental groups for dragging its feet in adding tuna to its seafood health advisories, may be concerned about creating consumer confusion by giving a thumbs-up to the tuna industry's commercials. The OMB declined to comment. "There's a problem with government-approved commercials that imply there is nothing to worry about. It isn't full disclosure," said...
...mention their peace agreement) was in flux, especially given the violence erupting in the occupied territories. Both sides had consented in theory to give TIME a joint interview in Cairo, which would have been a historic scoop (and convenient under the circumstances), but in case of a hitch there had to be a plan for seeing them separately, at P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis and in Jerusalem. How in the world would all TIME's party -- including the correspondents who cover these leaders, as well as photographer Gregory Heisler, his two assistants and their 350 lbs. of equipment -- ever make...
...package also includes nifty docs on the making of the last two films.) Viewers saw the director's impish side as host of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the first season of which is now available in a separate set. That makes for a two-box festival of Hitch--some ephemeral, most of it seminal...
...fact, the White House's Office of Management and Budget squeezed the request from $14 billion to $1.9 billion in the 2005 Water Resources Development Act, which is still awaiting a Senate vote. Governor Kathleen Blanco, in her first State of the State address after Katrina, tried to hitch the plan to the swell of reconstruction aid, asking for a cut of federal oil revenues to pay for coastal restoration, an idea also proposed by Louisiana's two Senators, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. They are not without supporters. Even the Army Corps of Engineers, which spent...