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...definitely busier than normal, emergency-wise," said PAS Director of Operations Bill C. Mergendahl, citing an increase in the number of slip-and-fall incidents reported to his ambulance service...
...know if it's wise to run a college like a democracy; they're deluding themselves to think that...
...notion that better-funded charities can handle the job, meanwhile, may be fanciful. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the Senate's welfare wise men, says that 30 years ago a proposal like Alexander's might have been possible. But no more. "Sixty-seven percent of the kids in Detroit are on AFDC in the course of a single year," he says. "The Catholic bishops will tell you they can't take care of that." Worse, Alexander's plan could balloon the deficit. His charity tax credit, much of which rewards people for gifts they'd make anyway...
...politely asked by the administration to make a list of 16 friends by the beginning of March. With these 16 people we will be sent out of our comfortable shelter in the Yard and into the world of upper-class houses. Of course, this is a problem every year. Wise seniors nod and respond, "Oh, the night before the blocking forms were due...well...it was quite a mess." However, something new arises for the class of '99, for whom the transitions seem to be particularly endless. Once we choose our 16, nine-, two-person group--whatever we can agree...
...wise not to require it," Mackay-Smith says. "People who are compelled to take it may not take it as seriously, but if you choose to participate [in the orientation session] because you see it is important [that lends a whole new credibility to the program...