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...last several years, the University has tried to implement cost-saving measures and more efficient management techniques, said Frank Schnur, assistant director of travel at the Office of Financial Systems...
Indeed, the seemingly unthinkable has happened. California--once big and bad and strapping--has been transformed into the object of national pity. Poor Pete Wilson! As governor, he has now lived through fires, earthquakes, droughts, floods, riots, and recessions. As Wilson's press secretary Dan Schnur said, "We've had just about all of the plagues--all except frogs and boils...
...pain a place could bear. In a city scorned because it has no seasons, Los Angeles residents now say there are four: riots, earthquakes, fire and floods. The sturdy, aerobic city of dreams is out of breath, its spirits fragile. "We don't call them disasters anymore," says Dan Schnur, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson. "We call them plagues. And we're just two behind ancient Egypt -- frogs and boils...
...have already ruined dozens of individuals, including most of the political figures who rose to prominence as the old regime sought to reform. Among them were Ibrahim Bohme, a founder of the eastern Social Democratic Party; Lothar de Maiziere, the first democratically elected East German Prime Minister; and Wolfgang Schnur, founding leader of Democratic Awakening, a once burgeoning political party that collapsed after Schnur's exposure as an informant. Gregor Gysi, head of the Party of Democratic Socialism, which succeeded the old Communist Party, is under suspicion...
...Wonder Years, this book should not be taken in large doses. After reading too many essays in one sitting, they tend to melt together into one lump of sappy, sentimental...well, fill in your own alliteration. The essays lose force because their cute outcomes become predictable. For example, Schnur constantly decorates this stories with "coincidental" meeting with pretty girls and over-blown adoration by neighborhood children...