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...copious correspondence with the assorted lunatics of his MP's constituency. From them he will learn such endearing and necessary information as the fact that youth unemployment in Britain could be substantially alleviated if not actually eradicated by the simple expedient of building a wall around the Isle of Wight. This, incidentally, also would have the beneficial effect of preventing the erosion by which the island apparently is much menaced...
...poverty in the U.S. And what's worse--the people working in the food banks and other services said that the number of people needing to use these services has increased over the past few years," said Jane Harrigan, a GSAS student who hails from The Isle of Wight, England...
...trophy, a pitcher homelier than Warren Spahn, was captured by Commodore John Cox Stevens' schooner America for blitzing 15 British boats in a race around the Isle of Wight promoting London's Great Exhibition of 1851. The N.Y.Y.C. insisted that the first challengers sail in solitude against a fleet of defenders and, in the interest of good seaworthy construction, travel to the site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened...
...Wight said HCHP would have no comment in response to the union's charges of management intransigence. "We think the ments of a labor dispute are best discussed in collective bargaining...
...Wight, a spokesman for HCHP, said the union's comparison of workers' and doctors' pay boosts is unrealistic. "The relevant comparison is to other workers of the same type at other institutions," he explained...