Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Housing Office for their professional handling of the First-Year lottery results. As anxious residents of Thayer Hall waited patiently for word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...
...solution? One million dollars for fresh research. Senators remain skeptical. Instead of big bucks for scientific dithering, Senator Frank Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, suggests offering children a $1 bounty for each snake they nab. "I'll go out with my pile of dollar bills and you come out with your scientists and we'll see who gets more snakes," Murkowski challenged Babbitt. So far, Babbitt?s not biting...
...documents were released by the White House in response to a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is considering the nomination of Anthony Lake to be the new CIA director. The giant pile of data did achieve its ostensible purpose: it showed that Lake was not a party to the unseemly fund-raising operation. But in making the case for Lake, the White House damaged itself in the larger battle to rise above the fund-raising scandals that are swamping it. Press secretary Mike McCurry conceded that at times the NSC's "good, sound counsel" was ignored, a reflection...
...last possible add-drop dates for classes approach, a few still prowl the aisles at the Coop--some students are scrambling to buy books for classes they've only just joined, some are returning piles of dull novels after giving up on a course and then there are some who visit the bookstore again and again in order to draw out the pain of watching money trickle into the Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there...
...alone will not be enough. Patches can run $4 a day or $224 for an eight-week treatment, he said, and he advises first-day backsliders not to throw good money after bad. But aspiring quitters of all stripes are a notoriously quixotic bunch, whose "quit days" can quickly pile up seven to a week. Hope springs eternal, and Mark Twain did it lots of times...