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Although Dean Knowles is not yet ready to outline any specific measures his office will adopt in the following year, he says that areas of major spending like salaries, financial aid, libraries and laboratories needs scrutiny. He adds that despite the budgetary crisis, he will not have it overwhelm his office...
Although Dean Knowles is not yet ready to outline any specific measures his office will adopt in the following year, he says that areas of major spending like salaries, financial aid, libraries and laboratories needs scrutiny. He adds that despite the budgetary crisis, he will not have it overwhelm his office...
...National Trust has spent more than $2 million repairing erosion of public footpaths. Residents of Bath have trouble reaching their shops on summer Saturdays because of tourists descending on the town to see the Royal Crescent and the Roman baths. In North Devon 370,000 visitors a year overwhelm the picturesque harbor of Clovelly (pop. 400). Sometimes they even wander into private homes...
...their initial seize-the-kids approach. Until 1986, Los Angeles County automatically took at least temporary custody of drug-exposed newborns. Then the crack epidemic exploded. "If we took every child who came out with a positive tox screen," says Gerhard Moland, a children's services administrator, "it would overwhelm the system." Now social workers consider the child's health and the mother's potential for rehabilitation when making court recommendations. The biggest factor in determining whether or not the county takes custody: the presence of a sober grandmother. Currently, grandmothers care for more than half...
Thanks to strong vocals and Weinstein's creative choreography, the big musical numbers are the highlights of the show. Unfortunately, the band and chorus occasionally overwhelm the lead singers, drowning out their Iyrics. "Summer Nights" and "Beauty School Drop-Out," two of the show's best songs, are marred by this problem. However, the overall strength of the songs compensates for this weakness...