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...marketplace - said at the time. You'd hardly guess that Barroso, appointed President of the Commission in 2004, took office with a substantial reservoir of goodwill to draw upon. Only the second Commission President to be appointed from outside the original six nations of the E.U. (the other was Roy Jenkins, all of 30 years ago), Barroso usefully combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal...
...story unfolds, every character, both major and minor, manages to be moving with an unusually high degree of success. As the earnest, caring Father Confessor, Roy A. Kimmey ’09 displayed an extremely powerful musical and dramatic presence; his immediacy brought his character to life. Jessica G. Peritz ’06 as Mother Marie, Caitlin C. Vincent ’07 as Sister Constance and Catherine L. Vaughan ’08 as the Second Prioress perform with similar success...
...this sentiment. “These downtimes are not only annoying, but are causing some serious problems for me (and others in similar situations, I’m sure) in terms of receiving and responding to emails regarding jobs, summer plans, etc.,” Sprague wrote. Weld resident Roy R. Shi ’09 took a more measured view of the outage. “Servers go down, that’s just the way they work,” Shi said. “It’s really hard to keep continuous service...
...indicted, and the talk all over Capitol Hill was about how Congress should change its rules, stopping lobbyists from getting too close to lawmakers, and vice-versa. But even then, there were signs that lobbying and ethics reforms might be yet another Washington fad that would soon pass. Republican Roy Blunt, then running for the post of House Majority Leader, defended earmarks-money doled out for specific projects in congressional districts. And House Speaker Dennis Hastert, unable to blame the powerless Democrats for the growth in earmarks, found the next best scapegoat, saying the projects grew because "the Senate plays...
TEFLON In 1938 Roy Plunkett, a young Du Pont chemist, was trying to find a new kind of refrigerant for manufacturers and filled a tank with a gas related to Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn...