Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young woman pauses by the Kiosks with a stack of papers. I nonchalantly approach...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...
...available information is immense--and spectacularly manipulatable. The agency's computer system at Langley stores more than 4 trillion bytes of secret information--equal to a stack of documents 30 miles high. Its computer-disk farms, which take up two floors the area of two football fields, have numbers and letters painted on the walls, like a parking lot, so technicians don't get lost in the mainframes. It once took cia analysts months to identify members of a terrorist group who might be recruited as informants. Now using an "link-analysis" program, the informants can be spotted in seconds...
Even House Speaker Newt Gingrich is showing the wear. Having been caught playing a little too loose with the facts in blaming the Democrats for all the ills of public schools and housing, he was reduced last week to carrying a stack of books--with selected passages duly page-marked with stick-on notes--into his daily press briefing to back up his contentions...
Epps calls for a return to those glory days in the Commons' new "laid-back" coffee house. Right on, dude. But there's more. On weekends the Commons will stack up those lunch tables and bring back disco to Harvard. We're told dancing in the Commons will surpass those silly House boogies that you don't go to anyway...