Word: runarounds
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...delays, no runaround, nothing except the good service that was lacking in my interactions with the repair center. I certainly hope that my case is an isolated incident. I fear, however, that I am not the only one who has had such problems, and I would like to see action taken to prevent similar problems in the future. Ragan E. Buckley...
Still, as the Roswell controversy becomes more heated, Washington has been under increasing pressure to resolve it. At the urging of New Mexico Representative Steven Schiff, who complained about a government "cover-up" of Roswell and the "runaround" he was getting from the Pentagon, the General Accounting Office announced in January 1994 that it would launch a hunt for any documents related to the "incident." That announcement was noted in the Washington Post under the headline "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe: Bodies of space voyagers said to have disappeared...
Some states have found that a very simple but powerful way to help parents is simply to coordinate the various services that they already offer. In West Virginia, for example, single sites that provide more than a dozen services have been established in seven communities. "Parents typically get a runaround and may only get a long list of phone numbers," says Kimberly Veraas, chairwoman of the state's Early Childhood Implementation Commission. "If they're really motivated, they can get information. But now we're rolling out the red carpet to parents. They only have to tell their story once...
...singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (wild man Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about two guys waiting in line for nothing to happen: Samuel Beckett rewritten for Simpson-Bruckheimer...
...heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees, who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about two guys waiting in line for nothing to happen: Samuel Beckett rewritten for Simpson-Bruckheimer. Part of the joke here is that Spoon...