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...President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime pay and compensatory time off for long hours. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had opened the meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt...
...Odei Odotei '97-'98 said he was in the midst of washing his hair when the water shut-off. He said he had to rinse off in the sink...
Many conjecture that the turtle's plan had been to let the pheromone network sink into decrepitude in order to improve it. The incongruence of a premier hub with a shoddy means of communication would attract the vultures (the richest members of the swamp, of whom many had once belonged to the hub), who would be appalled into refurbishing the system. It was a plan the turtle had used many times in the past, with success, but this time, the vultures were simply appalled and decided instead to invest in carrion futures. And the group dissolved...
...spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them. So he destroyed it, he says, lest "the evil nature of men" turn it into an instrument of death. Half a millennium later, he clearly remains a man ahead of his time...
...Broadway jokes, but Yeston contends that the Titanic lends itself perfectly to musical theater. "Part of the story is hubris, part is profoundly human," he explains. "This is the stuff of musical theater: people are so moved they can no longer speak. They are forced to sing." Or sink...