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Overnight millions of ballot papers were printed, but an hour before opening, none had arrived at our station. So there we were at 6:30 in the morning walking down the kilometer-long queue which had already formed asking very patient voters to be even more patient. By the end of that second day the election officers had the voting procedure down to a fine art with an average of 100 people through every ten minutes. I spent most of my time doing voter education, assisting sightimpaired voters, explaining the difference between the national and provincial ballots and keeping tabs...
...current mailqueue-the list of messages waiting to bedelivered-for a specific undergraduate's name,identify when and to whom that student has sentmail, not the size of the mail message andrecognize the message's delivery status. But asmessage delivery speed increases, messages willspend less time in the queue, making it moredifficult to monitor, them...
...queue stretched so far back one day last week that two Russian babushkas could be spotted alongside thee stream of section refugees reasoning that some valuable commodity must be distributed at the end. Rumor has it that if you hand the checker five kopecks he'll stick a loaf of bread in your "A Wet Book Is Not A Dead Duck...
Want to increase your profit margin? Forget those market studies. Trash the upscale ad campaign. Fire your spin doctors. And start listening to those silent consumers who never queue up in front of the case register: the shoplifters...
...Part of the issue obviously now is healthcare," Rudenstine said, "and with the budget, andthe crime bill, and everything else on the tabledown there, finding your place in the queue... isas much a matter of making sure that you'rethinking and helping with the priorities thatCongress is facing as well as [Harvard's] ownpriorities...