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...Prize (1963): A lark...
...provision would also hamper medical research, which often creates such wastes as a by-product. While the wording actually exempts for biomedical research, scientists insist that this is a lark, because these researchers would have to set up their own disposal sites--a highly expensive, if not economically impossible proposition. Legislators are effectively handling this issue, and citizens should allow then a free hand to continue, and vote...
...mark shows up in some unlikely places. Barks' stories, as Film Director George Lucas points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas-Steven Spielberg adventure lark Raiders of the Lost Ark will discover a progenitor in The Seven Cities of Cibola. Indeed, Barks' stories and Lucas' Star Wars sagas share not only a gentle satiric edge but a kind of giddy imagination that leads into territory that is, in all senses of the word...
Some. Gone are the days of limos rented on a lark and unlimited room service from the kitchen and the pharmacy. Gone is much of the personnel, borne off by cuts in all echelons-sparing, of course, the most exalted executive suites, where gloom and consternation flourish nonetheless. There is no smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime...
...almost always lashed with a confusion of difficult emotions. Indeed, the psychological cost of joblessness is more hurtful to many victims than the strain of making financial ends meet. A few individuals, true enough, are so oddly disposed that they can take unemployment with upbeat nonchalance, making a lark of it or seizing the opportunity to switch careers. Still, Americans more typically take a cruel psychic bruising when they lose a job (never mind the cause). And if joblessness goes on for long, men and women of all ages, occupations and economic classes tend to suffer a sharp loss...