Word: repeatable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most bad laws, this one began with good intentions. Twenty years and 20 independent counsels ago, Congress passed the statute to prevent a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox made people realize that investigators had to be walled off from the investigated. So the new statute gave a special three-judge panel the power to name independent counsels when the Attorney General said it was necessary and made the counsels virtually unfireable...
...fine they were. Group participants and audience members said they were pleased with the premiere Nov. 20 performance and looking forward to a repeat...
...could build fast because he had broken down the construction process into 27 operations, then mustered specialized teams to repeat each operation at each building site. Twenty acres were set aside as an assembly point, where cement was mixed and lumber cut. Trucks would deliver parts and material to homesites placed at 60-ft. intervals. Then the carpenters, tilers, painters and roofers arrived, each in his turn. There was a team for white paint, another for red. One worker's sole daily task was to bolt washing machines to floors...
...feel the need to repeat that: They are green sea creatures. I was immediately perplexed by their appearances. The Loft Theater drove me to the library. I was convinced that the portrayal of Leslie and Sarah as merpeople was a crazy, futuristic idea that Emerson College students used to rejuvenate an otherwise standard conversational Albee plot. I was wrong. Although Albee does not provide an exact description of their physiques, he makes enough indications of their crawling in and out of the water to justify the slithering amphibians I saw on the stage. The plot is not merely implausible...
Seaboard's solution: recruit Hispanic laborers from other areas of the U.S. as well as from Mexico and Central American countries like Guatemala. Soon the recently arrived immigrants began to stream into Albert Lea--with no money and no place to stay. It was a practice Seaboard would repeat in other towns, in other states...