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...drill has become depressingly routine. A news story hits the evening news or one of the TV tabloid shows; then the agents and producers descend. Sometimes there is a bidding war to lock up the rights for the participants' stories. Other times, the public record -- press accounts or court transcripts -- will suffice. The point is to get something on screen fast, while the story is fresh in viewers' minds...
...some cases, men and women are permitted to share bathrooms, and the standard for privacy constitutes a lock on a bedroom door--in other cases, when two bathrooms are available, co-ed groups exist," Silversmith said...
...thought both of them had moments where they stood out, and I don't think either of them is a lock for the position," Kleinfelder said. "Liz, though, probably has a slight edge right...
...royalty on the value of the extracted minerals, with a fee schedule favoring small operators. "We ought to have progressive fees to make a populist statement that it's good public policy to make sure the small guys stay on the land. We're not trying to just lock the West up and turn the whole thing into a national park," says Babbitt. Mining interests know they will have to give ground, up to a point. Says John Knebel, president of the American Mining Congress: "We're going to have to make some adjustments...
Although Harvard's less to Dartmouth dropped the Crimson in the national polls from the fourth spot to the sixth behind Boston University, Harvard did lock up the number one seed in the ECAC tournament with its win over Vermont...