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...Alcohol Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) ruled that the Grille knew or should have known that it was serving an underage drinker when the Cambridge Licensing Commission conducted a sting last October...
...quite fair even then; early works by authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke relied as much on clever plot twists and thought-provoking views of societal evolution as on visions of rocket ships and interplanetary travel. Still, there was sufficient truth for the stereotype to sting...
...economy, the rise in average American wages and the 9.7 million jobs created since he took office, reiterating his plan to make the first $10,000 in college tuition deductible: "I want every one who wants to, to be able to go to college." Perhaps feeling the sting of the multiple investigations underway into actions by Clinton aides and associates, the President took the time-honored course of blaming the media, in this case virtually accusing the press of unpatriotic negativism: "We can never say we have restored America until you can go home and turn on the evening news...
Chang's showing helped to ease the sting of a disappointing season for the men's team, which went winless in four Ivy League matches in stumbling to a 3-6 overall record...
...only January meet, Harvard fell to Yale by a pretty wide margin, 172-128, about a week before exams. Three straight Ivy victories helped ease that sting (over Princeton, Penn and Cornell), and then came Easterns...