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Fine's argument regarding student interest may be true to a certain extent. No one expects that this change will cause student interest in the council to skyrocket, transforming council members into international celebrities whose every move is monitored by the campus press. Many students will still be apathetic about the council and its activities...
Today, O.J. Simpson's sport (along with many others) receives unprecedented levels of fan support and is also a multi-zillion dollar industry. And NFL salaries continue to skyrocket...
...severely contaminated property may still have to be cordoned off indefinitely, according to the study, which said maintaining such sites could cost $75 million a year. The study further concedes that if the cleanup program is not reformed to eliminate inefficiency and waste, the overall price tag could skyrocket to $350 billion. Even at that,TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodburysays the dollar figures look like a "lowball estimate" because the government has yet to decide exactly how it will clean up a good amount of the waste. "Are they going to bury it or are they going to truck...
...documentation. Have you ever seen a salesperson at Macy's fill in a tri-copy receipt with anything but a ball-point, sometimes engraved with the manager's son's little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good ol' standby, always...
Enter interactive media. Once voting-from-home becomes a reality, voter "turnout" will skyrocket. Voter registration will be simple--just turn on your television set. Voting itself will be just as easy--select from the choices presented onscreen. Who wouldn't want to vote when the act becomes as easy as playing a video game...