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...going to show Harvard that we're not going to mess around. And you can tell Mr. Powers that we're going to stop getting stuck in bureaucratic...
...performance was vintage Ronald Reagan: a laughing anecdote about how he had almost dropped a pickax on the feet of his boss on a youthful summer construction job; a wry translation of status quo as "Latin for 'the mess we're in' "; a visionary proclamation of "an American Renaissance" of high employment and low inflation. But the audience was as cool as any Reagan has played to as President. It gave him about the minimum of tepid applause required by politeness and respect to his office...
...then." So local officials recruited police from all the surrounding towns and the state, and then held a 1 a.m. meeting. "We decided we'd wait until 5 a.m. and then get them out. And we did, cleared them out of there. But they sure had made a mess of that place," Sullivan says. And adds, with a chuckle," we must have taken ten busloads of them out of there and right down to the courthouse. They were in a lot of hot water." It was, he says, a necessary move, both for Harvard and the city. "They needed...
Harvard has been throwing its political weight around and using the argument that its huge--and increasing--investment in the plant must be seen through to completion, the community groups say. "Harvard's made a mess of this. But they try to blame us and the state as obstructionists. Yet they were the ones that planned it poorly," Dr. John Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, says...
...bathroom faucet. Those waves on the other side of the beach are clearly irrelevant to the casino owners, and they seem to be wishing for someone like Rosie, the waitress in the Bounty commercials, to come along with a giant paper towel and sop up the whole unsightly mess...