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...raised the toilet paper issue repeatedly before this year, and a simple Web search reveals that this is a concern of college students nationwide. A pair of candidates for MIT's student government in 1993 made two-ply one of their major issues. Toilet paper was the first platform plank of a pair of candidates for Penn State's student council earlier this year (plank No. 2 was the creation of a "nap lounge"). And American University's online newspaper, The Eagle's Web, last year ran one student's emphatic plea for two-ply. "I didn't even know...
...much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...budget package includes a revised version of the President's Hope Scholarship program, a large plank of his 1996 re-election platform. That program provides dollar-for-dollar tax credit to first-and second-year college students for the first $1,000 spent on tuition, fees and books. In addition, the scholarship includes a credit for 50 percent of the next $1,000 spent on college...
...guards pushed them over the gap between dock and plank, then up a narrow staircase. Buakey, the littlest one, stumbled and fell but couldn't rise because his hands were locked together...
...noticed that [Republican leaders] I thought were good were no longer doing right in my view," Keyes says. "I saw a big assault on the pro-life plank and the moral family...