Word: surpluses
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...store will soon be closing and returning to the area where it first opened some fifty years ago under the name of Central Surplus. Having moved to Harvard Square nine years ago, the store's owners have decided to relocate again...
Tomorrow, Harvard will look to its surplus of experienced and talented players to continue the offensive attack. Leading the way are midfielder Stauffer and senior forward Naomi Miller--both four-time First Team All-Ivy selections...
...this country, most for budgets in the low ten thousands, has probably doubled in the last five years. The reasons are varied: the inspiring do-it-yourself success of films like Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, which was made for $7,000 and grossed over $1.6 million; the surplus of film schools; cheaper and more accessible technologies (credible-looking features can now be shot on digital video at a cost of about $20 for an hour of tape, as opposed to, say, $15,000 for an hour of 35-mm film stock and processing); easy credit. Estimates of the total...
...comforted that steps are being taken to improve our military preparedness. Just weeks ago, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Congress to report that our forces did not possess sufficient resources to handle the proliferation of threats in the international arena. In this year of surplus, we are lucky to have an opportunity to improve our security capabilities without damaging social programs...
...leave the music stumbling behind. "St. Louise is Listening" (a song as close to garage rock as Soul Coughing gets) and "Maybe I'll Come Down" (a bland ballad that strains Doughty's voice and listener's patience) are two songs that should have remained poems. In both, a surplus of syllables obviously constrains the music--Doughty is overly intellectual and whiny, the instrumentation is weak, and the beat sounds like it was churned from a cheap drum-machine...