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...says there are bidding procedures for everything her office does. Asked to state his specific policy on bidding, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50 said his office employs bidding for the reunions when officials feel that prices charged by current vendors have gotten too steep...
...price was too high or too low: parks, highways and other pork projects served as common currency. As many as 15 lawmakers from peanut-producing states switched when the White House agreed to curb the flow of imported Chinese peanut butter -- at a steep cost to American consumers. Clinton promised to toughen his policy toward Haiti to woo several black lawmakers. One telephone conversation between a Cabinet officer and an undecided lawmaker went like this: "Congressman, I'm sitting here chewing my fingers and wondering what else we can do to win this vote. I know you've talked...
...flat is on a steep hill overlooking the city. Every third or fourth house bears the mark of a night of ethnic cleansing that came last year, when the mosque that stood next to the 14th century Turkish citadel was reduced to rubble and about 10,000 Muslims were driven away or killed. The entire neighborhood has been repopulated with Serbs from Zenica...
...going native in 1989 after an unusual cold spell killed many of the nonnative shrubs that surrounded her lakeside home. Her property shimmers with blackfoot daisies that bloom from early spring until the first fall frost. UCLA neurologist Andrew Charles wanted an attractive but drought-resistant cover for the steep hillside behind his house. His solution was to plant deep-rooted California lilacs punctuated by the orchid-like blossoms of sticky monkey flowers...
...fully immunized against mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough and five other childhood diseases. But critics said Clinton's original proposal, at $1.1 billion, was too costly and that parents' failure to take youngsters to public clinics, where free shots are already available, was more to blame than steep vaccine prices. Administration officials have acknowledged that among the major problems are clinic hours that are too short and lines that are too long...