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...workday was just an hour old. Nearly 200 employees in the red-tiled colonial building that houses Colombo's central telegraph offices were busy at their posts. Customers had begun to queue up to pay bills, make calls at the public phone booths and send telegrams. Suddenly the morning routine was shattered by an explosion that echoed throughout the downtown area of the capital. Two floors of the three-story structure collapsed. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage for survivors, police commandeered cars to transport the wounded to hospitals. Twelve people died and more than 100 were injured...
KUREISHI AND DIRECTOR Frears cleverly handle the ensuing development both of the cleaning service and the gay love affair, often adding sweet and ridiculous touches. On opening day, Johnny and Omar make love in the plush back room while customers form a comically eager queue for the bannered and streamered laundrette...
Lamont and Hilles require professors to get their reading lists in two months before the semester begins--a rule, it appears, that was made to be broken. And because the libraries place all reserve requests in a queue, each request has an automatic lag time of at least a month...
...lottery runs on a very simple premise. Because some houses are more popular than others, the preference of every freshman cannot be met. Therefore, a lottery is held to create a queue of rooming groups. By its intention, rooming group 99 in the lottery should have a better chance of getting into the house of its choice than number...
...wealthy Briton who does not want to wait in the National Health Service queue can have a private transplant operation for a reported $13,000. In the U.S. too, and in most of the world, money may not buy health, but it certainly helps...