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Just as life at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is improving, Harvard is trying to find ways to shorten students' stays...
...There are automated machines for stamps, weighing packages and many other services," said Victor A. Carbone, manager of the post office. "There is even a clerk whom we call a lobby director who helps shorten the line by speeding people on their way by directing them to the convenient automated machines...
Perot calls for a radical populism using citizens' input to attack economic and social problems. To fund the national debt, he would ban deficit spending, bill Japan and Europe for defense costs and overhaul the tax system. He would also sell government planes to curb travel costs, shorten political campaigns and pressure Congressmen to give up re-election war chests...
...this very day, whenever I go shopping, I utter a brief prayer and with great anticipation, check the ingredients on a Twinkie wrapping hoping that the company would get rid of the "may contain vegetable and/or animal shortening" clause and shorten it to just "vegetable shortening." I have yet to be so lucky...
INCOMPETENCE, while only depressing at the federal level, can provide hours of entertainment when people you know personally are destroying the country. Right next door to us, in Holyoke, the school committee wanted to shorten the school week to four days to save money. The mayor was reluctant because he thought it might create problems for working parents...No! Do you think...