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HIIDs main function is the undertaking of development projects in Third World countries. Currently, for example, at HIID seam led by Malcolm Gillis, an HIID fellow is working on a plan to drastically reform Indonesia's tax administration through computerization. Such projects abound and have reportedly earned HIID the respect of officials in many developing nations. One State Department official says HIID is among the most efficient and well-liked groups working in the Third World. "What separates HIID from U.S. agencies like the-Agency for International Development and other development projects," the official says. "Is the perception...
Inside the Mink Branch mine, far below the muddy clutter of wood siding and decrepit machines at the opening, the Hamiltons were taking coal by "shooting from the solid." This problematic technique consists of detonating tubes of explosives tamped a few feet into a coal seam. (Safer, mechanized extraction techniques would cost at least twice as much...
...campaign swing, a reporter called out to [Rockefeller] as he boarded his plane, 'Hey, Governor, there's more than your image showing.' Indeed, the seat of his trousers had split... 'Get me the sewing kit.' Sitting unselfconsciously in his shorts, he sewed up the seam... while reporters and staff first gaped, then cheered as he completed the rescue. He looked up with the smile of one who knows he has pleasantly startled. 'See. I went to a progressive school...
...threw five times to Shaun Teevens for 77 yards. He hit sophomore Jack Daly four times for 37. He picked apart the Harvard secondary with sideline passes that split the seam for medium-length gains. Granted, that probably wouldn't have happened if All-Ivy cornerback Rocky Delgadillo hadn't broken his nose in the first quarter and played with pain the rest of the way, but again, that's the way this series seems...
...falls. She then begins cutting and sewing with the fabric still on her. It is from this master sample that patterns are made. This curious system may well stem from her teen-age days, when she would stitch herself into tight pants, then extricate herself with a seam ripper...