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McKay said that in past years, executive-seathopefuls would "stack the council," persuadingtheir friends to run in order to increase theirbases of support within the council once theexecutive elections were held...
...often perceived as Cosmic Al, and indeed his office is a memorial to planet Earth, with one huge picture of the sphere hanging where the grip-and- grin photos usually are. But Gore has tethered himself to the ground: on top of his desk is a foot-high stack of three-ring binders filled with the obscure yet costly rules and regulations that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever possible...
...side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed of their own weight and toppled into one another, scattering layers of undifferentiated documents from one end of his office to the other in a kind...
...hand Rooney extended a thick stack of press reports of Hogue's previous arrests, aliases and parole records...
...liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt. He is especially eager to smoke out gays and lesbians whose livelihoods, unlike his own, rely on discretion. He sees them as hypocrites and lackeys of their oppressors, a point made so often that the book begins to resemble a stack of bumper stickers...