Word: outlet
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...HUSC members say the goal of the club is just that--making everyone happy by offering a warm environment for snowboarding enthusiasts and an outlet for stressed-out students...
...particularly fond of American birthday cakes. "I thought they were fantastic," he says, "with all the icing and decorations and candles. What kid could resist that?" He was apparently less taken with hamburgers. Last August the radical French farm leader led a commando attack on a McDonald's outlet under construction in the southern town of Millau. Armed with crowbars, sledgehammers, wrenches and screwdrivers, these crusaders for the French way of life dismantled the fast-food franchise...
...After all the excitement of designing her own clothes, Waddell describes costuming for Harvard theater as "a step down." Unfortunately, because of the absence of fashion in the University, costume design is the only outlet available to her. "I can't be as personally creative," she admits grimly, "but I have learned a lot." She works under a lot of pressure, measuring and dressing entire casts in just one or two weeks. A new challenge was working within the constraints of a distinct historical period, as with Giasone. One senses that the Renaissance style was perhaps too much...
...raver. Touched with the horrifics of a child's dream, the monster nonetheless conserved an impeccable stylishness that quite outshone the pantalooned prince in their operatic duel. (The Jabberwocky's vest came from Waddell's own closet.) The Dunster House production of The Magic Flute is promising as an outlet for Waddell's fantastic inclinations--she will be creating all of the costumes for the show from scratch and views it as her first real opportunity to showcase her work at Harvard...
...taken simply on a business basis." While nongovernmental organizations and even some governments are raising some of those issues inside the talks, activists will maintain a steady barrage of protests throughout the week. While headline-grabbing anarchic actions at the fringes - such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...