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...measure, which went into effect at the outset of the semester, was developed after many students and administrators complained last year about the volume of smoke, Singer said. An eight-member committee made up of students and administrators--both smokers and non-smokers--investigated the complaints and concluded that smoking should be restricted to the two foyers, each of which is approximately 100 square feet...
...board convened the next day in the Italianate boardroom personally designed and decorated by Paley. Wyman and other senior executives briefed the directors on CBS's prospects and strategy. The presentation was later described by some of those present as lackluster. But it contained a bombshell: at the outset Wyman asked the board to authorize continued negotiations with Coca-Cola over the purchase of CBS. By implication, that meant he had already held talks of some kind; a Coca-Cola spokesman later volunteered that "there was contact, but there was nothing of substance in those contacts...
...first Union artillery shells detonated at 1 p.m. Picnickers from Washington, society women in long dresses and their escorts in string ties and long black coats, watched from their hillside vantage point, eating fried chicken as they waited for the Federal troops to crush the Confederates. At the outset, this battle near the railhead called Manassas Junction went according to Northern expectations...
...current state of emergency, cracking down on dissent and the press. The President vented his frustration with the Administration's inability to articulate its South African policy. "I know what we're against," he said. "Can we state exactly what we're for down there?" But from the outset, there was the unshakable conviction that sanctions would only hurt those they were designed to help, which is why the search for symbolic measures came down to finding a black Ambassador...
That almost bumptious sense of lese majeste had been established at the outset of the courtship. Though the couple first met on a polo field when both of them were four, their romance was sparked not by a sudden glance or even a heartfelt declaration but, well, by a profiterole actually. The cupid's confection came into play at Ascot last year, when a boisterous Andrew put his arm around Fergie and tried to stuff the cream-filled cake into her mouth. The girl who last week vowed to obey him winged the pastry back at his royal person...