Word: straw
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...front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH SIZE IN ECONOMY MOVE. The merits of the controversy got covered with catsup. Scoffed Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Heinz, a scion of the catsup-making family: "This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of." The final straw came when Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, South Carolina's Ernest Hollings and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, were photographed staring with distaste at a skimpy sample school lunch. Said FRAC Head Nancy Amidei: "We didn't have to do anything-they handed...
Strong student and Faculty support, expressed in straw votes taken last spring on the issue, should, however, transcend these procedural conflicts. The Faculty Council's near-unanimous support for the plan, for example, shows that "the Faculty is committed to incorporating student opinion into the decision-making process," Dean Fox says. In addition, a College-wide referendum in April revealed that 71 per cent of those voting favored the proposal...
Three issues that sparked some debate last year remain for the Faculty to polish off, but observers expect all to be approved swiftly once the council forwards them. The first, the Dowling report for a new student government, drew overwhelming Faculty support in a non-binding straw vote last spring. Once the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) formally ends discussion of several proposed amendments to the Dowling report, observers say the Faculty will approve the plan that will pave the way for a student referendum which, if passed, would give funding to the proposed student council...
...Congresswoman Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, he discovered last week that U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
Bill Hustead likes to point out that customers return, not just the big-spending families from the cities but also the four locals over at the corner table, all elderly ranchers wearing string ties and straw hats, who have been sipping nickel coffee and talking weather all afternoon. Despite its chintzy tourist baubles, Wall Drug has a homeliness that makes customers spend with a smile. Perhaps a young Connecticut man, heading west with his new bride (but passing up the FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS TO HONEYMOONERS), puts it best: "They don't try to make a lot of money...