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...induces visual and auditory hallucinations, stronger negative and positive emotions and the feeling that things are more profound that they would be otherwise--i.e. that the number of green thingies on your living room rug is the pivotal question of our time. The drug lasts 8-12 hours and leaves the user incapable to do anything but walk around slowly, track their hands, or watch Sesame Street and feel for Big Bird's inability to convince anyone of Snuffy's existence...
...Committee to wrangle over a replacement plan that included some combination of a gasoline tax and cuts in Medicare. The negotiations will be tense as the committee struggles to meet its deadline this Friday. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, the Administration's economic point man: "Sometimes I chew the rug...
...organized a political committee to spearhead their efforts for more courses on Asian American topics and history, but they saw no progress this year either. The issue quieted and seemed to be swept under the bureaucratic rug...
...mean to advocate sweeping racial problems under the rug, but rather to raise the following questions: How much of the controversy surrounding race relations is generated by the response to relatively minor incidents, and how much by the incidents themselves? Do students respond positively or negatively to race retreats and other condescensions? Why can't we deal with racial problems via ordinary University mechanisms instead of creating a self-sustaining bureaucracy? And is the situation really all that bad to begin with...
Many argue that Murphy Brown's situation, and many similar real-life situations, are inevitable. We can either deal with them or sweep them under a rug, leaving the Murphy Browns of the world with either social ostracization or miserable lives with Mr. Wrong. The same argument is used for supporting distribution of condoms in public schools...