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...explosives in a bouncy airplane is likely to cause a prematurely explosion, inducing damage but not enough “bang” to blow the plane. Furthermore, mixing components on board, as the London suspects allegedly planned to do, produces a noxious smell that any half-witted air steward would notice...
...Cameron simply because he was an Old Etonian. He had to fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a former ship's steward, targeted Cameron as part of an "Eton mafia." Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cameron's likely opponent at the next election, also dismissed him as just "an Old Etonian." Any school for teenagers that politicians can use to curse their foes decades later has powerful magic indeed...
...reliability, he added. While most teachers recommend Encyclopedia Britannica to their students as a source of information, even Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales tells students not to cite Wikipedia, according to Weinberger. Samuel J. Klein ’99, who introduced himself as a Wikipedia administrator and steward, defended Wikipedia by noting the positive aspects of a source edited by the public. The dispute between individuals over the content of a Wikipedia entry produces “something of quality,” Klein said. “It’s the kind of discourse you don?...
...We’re going to stand by your fight...It’s unacceptable for you to go for a year without a contract,” former mayor and Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio told the protesters, who withstood chilling 20 degree temperatures.Billye Thomas, a principal shop steward for the CHA, blamed the CHA for the failure of contract negotiations. “We’ve been negotiating for a year, but they haven’t listened,” she said. “No one really wants to protest.”The council later...
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