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...continued in this kindergarten manner for a while before he decided to check some list. (I heard paper rustling.) My name was on the list, he announced smugly. Therefore I had received it. I asked if it were possible that the omnipotent Registrar's Office, long may it spew red tape, had actually made a mistake? (That's not exactly what I said, but I wish I had.) He then retreated to his second line of defense. It didn't matter anyway since it was my responsibility to find out these things, not the responsibility of the Registrar's Office...
Rather than spew unoriginal cliches, U.C. observers might choose to demand substance from the candidates in their House or Yard region, both before and after elections. The actions of U.C. representatives parallel the rest of human activities in that, left unchecked, they follow the natural human tendency toward self-interest...
...Wisconsin Power & Light, agreed to sell pollution "credits" to two other companies, among them one of the nation's dirtiest utilities, the Tennessee Valley Authority. This innovative, market-based deal, made possible under the 1990 Clean Air Act, will allow T.V.A. and the Duquesne Light Co. of Pittsburgh to spew larger quantities of sulfur dioxide into the air while WP&L reduces its emissions. The arrangement is probably the first of many, and it should help lower the overall cost of curbing acid rain, since some utilities may opt to buy less costly rights now and delay more expensive efforts...
...English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors played Darrin on Bewitched: "Dick Sargent, Dick York. Sargent York...
...National Review editor William J. Buckley Jr. found it difficult to defend Buchanan after his comments about Treblinka and the alleged dual loyalties of Jews during the gulf war. Michael Kinsley, Buchanan's Crossfire co-host for two years, points out that it is a pundit's business to spew out provocative opinions like an open fire hydrant. But he insists, as do most of Buchanan's colleagues, that the candidate is not anti- Semitic: "I never heard him make a disparaging remark about Jews, never noticed any difference in the way he treats Jews...