Properly implemented, this approach provides reasonable assurance that a trip occurred.


Although the C-R relationship may, in fact, vary from one location to another (for example, due to differences in population susceptibilities or differences in the composition of PM), locationspecific C-R functions are generally not available.


Finally, I would like to address the issue of funding.


Nonexchange transactions-- gains and losses


Retirement of debt securities prior to trust funds and special funds (except trust revolving funds).


The company remains prepared to restructure to meet ever-changing business requirements.


Even if preliminary engineering and contract negotiation took as long as six to eight months, the total time for completing two 900 MWe units would be about 17 to 19 months.


First, the ED potentially provides an ideal teachable moment for patients who have problems with alcohol use.


Three months after enrollment, the field representatives evaluate a sample of each new provider's claims to see if there are any issues that should be discussed.


On the other hand, there are responsibilities such as IT planning and oversight that must remain in-house.


While his idea of highlighting this area of research holds great merit, operationalization is problematic.


The crosshatched trapezoid is the welfare loss to these mailers as a market, given that they cannot shift.


The 1989 National Mail Count was conducted for 24 delivery days from September 5 to October 2, 1989, and included 44,775 rural routes out of a total of 46,197.


The statistics in Table A1 show that, on average, routes in the more profitable quartiles reside in ZIP Codes with higher income households and more educated adults.


Several witnesses testified about terminating representation once the alien left the country.


Faced with this choice, clients likely would preserve their right to leave the country.


About 2,100 general practitioners accessed their feedback reports on-line during 1999, and HIC implemented further enhancements to include feedback to other medical practitioners.


Would we not answer a phone call, not respond to a question, cancel a deposition, or not go to the library and research a case?


We have made significant progress in addressing many of the areas in need of improvement in GAO and need to continue these efforts.


An example of disruptions that could occur is provided by recent denialofservice attacks on popular websites.


The least cited reason was to maintain inhouse core


Just as there is a spectrum of alcohol use problems, there may be a family of solutions.


or visit GAO's World Wide Web home page at


Based on the estimated time periods needed to complete each of the four phases described above, the estimated time period to complete the implementation of SCR on one combustion unit is about 21 months.


Notices to opposing counsel and the court or administrative agency would have to be sent.


The gain or loss should be accounted for as a nonexchange gain or loss


23Financial Continued Momentum Essential to Achieve CFO Act Goals


Community legal education is a crucial service provided by LSC grantees.


However, it may also be anticipated that using the ED visit as a teachable moment may be effective for non-injured persons who drink at risk excessively.


Clearly, the AICPA's value-enhancement and trade-oriented efforts have dominated its agenda in recent years.


In leading organizations, evolving business processes play a key role in determining how these information management responsibilities are structured and adapted to meet changing needs.


A group at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, meanwhile, has been discussing student debt for six months.


In measuring effectiveness, perfection is unattainable.


The housemate who rented the room to Hazmi and Mihdhar during 2000 is an apparently law-abiding citizen with long-standing, friendly contacts among local police and FBI personnel.


For their travel to Bosnia, see Intelligence report, interrogation of Saudi al Qaeda member, Oct. 3, 2001.


Jane asked the New York agent assigned to the Mihdhar search to sign a FISA acknowledgment form indicating the agent understood how he had to treat FISA information.


Nothing stands out about any of them with respect to the only security layer that was relevant to the actual checkpoint screening.


Khallad has provided a second version, namely that all three traveled together to Karachi.


In addition to Moussaoui, the two al Qaeda operatives identified by KSM as candidates for the second wave of attacks were Abderraouf Jdey, a.k.a.


Intelligence report, interrogation of Binalshibh, Oct. 1, 2002.


Mihdhar received a new U.S. visa two days after the CIA-FBI meeting in New York.


In detention, KSM denies that al Qaeda had any agents in Southern California.


Despite two years of investigation, the FBI was unable to find the co-worker or determine his true identity.


In the case of American 11, the last normal communication from the plane was at 8:13 A.M.


It is a way of saying, I am an outlaw, a mountain man!


These capabilities were insufficient, but little was done to expand or reform them.


The analyst's email, however, reflects that she was confusing a broad array of caveats and legal barriers to information sharing and rules governing criminal agents' use of information gathered through intelligence channels.


Some officers were then assigned to assist in stairwell evacuations; others were assigned to expedite evacuation in the plaza, concourse, and PATH station.


Even in that situation, the restriction obliged running the information through the OIPR screen.


On September 9, dramatic news arrived from Afghanistan.


The inability to communicate was a critical element at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, crash sites, where multiple agencies and multiple jurisdictions responded.


Searches of readily available databases could have unearthed the driver's licenses, the car registration, and the telephone listing.


Claiming to have been suspicious of the entire transaction, the administrator distanced himself from Hazmi and Mihdhar, but not before they had received the assistance they needed.


Commission analysis of FAA air traffic control data.


In 2003, these designations were eliminated; all international terrorism matters now receive the same designation, 315.


Numerous PAPD officers were also climbing in the South Tower, including the PAPD ESU team.


This officer, who had observed the South Tower collapse, reported it to ESU units in the North Tower in his evacuation instruction.


Generators had to be shut down to ensure safety, and elevators stopped.


If the situation escalates, a threat conference may be convened.


An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative was on the same flight that took the future hijackers to Iran.


Both Secretary Powell and Secretary Rumsfeld appear to have already been briefed on these topics by the DCI as well.


For covert action, of course, the White House depended on the Counterterrorist Center and the CIA's Directorate of Operations.


In Riyadh, he told his brothers that he had been on jihad in Chechnya.


For the other units, see FDNY records, computer-aided dispatch report, alarm box 1377, Sept. 11,2001,09:42:45-09:47:05.


Others related only to carrying specific passengers.


Clarke mentioned to National Security Advisor Rice at least twice that al Qaeda sleeper cells were likely in the United States.


At the same time, Saudi Arabia's society was a place where al Qaeda raised money directly from individuals and through charities.


We're just trying to figure out what's going on.


The FBI must maintain rigorous security and proficiency standards with respect to its permanent and contract employees.


FBI investigators have speculated that al Qaeda may have directed other extremist Muslims in the Phoenix area to enroll in aviation training.


Mzoudi claims he went home to Morocco to get married but could not because he was injured in a car accident there.


Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.


PDBs were not routinely briefed to congressional leaders, though this item could have been in some other intelligence briefing.


There is a dispute regarding Ashcroft's interest in Pickard's briefings about the terrorist threat situation.


These workers were not trapped, yet unlike most occupants on the upper floors, they had chosen not to descend immediately after impact.


On returning to the United States, Hage was met at the airport by FBI agents, interrogated, and called the next day before the federal grand jury then investigating Bin Ladin.


Shakur has been identified by Spanish authorities as Farid Hilali.


For the two companies and their actions, see FDNY interview 22, Battalion 28 (Jan.


23, 2004 (nearly two-thirds of the known leaders of al Qaeda had been killed or captured).


Worldwide asset freezes have not been adequately enforced and have been easily circumvented, often within weeks, by simple methods.


The profile was derived from information on the Passenger Name Record and did not include factors such as race, creed, color, or national origin.


After 9/11, Motassadeq admitted to German authorities that Shehhi had asked him to handle matters in a way that would conceal Shehhi's absence.


Ajaj had entered the United States on a B-2 tourist visa at New York City on September 9, 1991.


Civilians who called the Port Authority police desk located at 5 WTC were advised to leave if they could.


They were positioned around the mezzanine lobby level of the North Tower, directing civilians leaving stairwells A and C to evacuate down an escalator to the concourse.


FBI report, Flight #93 'No Show' Passengers from 9/11/01, Sept. 18, 2001.


Rice and others recalled the President saying, I'm tired of swatting at flies.


For the delayed dispatch, see FDNY records, computer-aided dispatch report, alarm box 8087, Sept. 11, 2001, 09:03:00-09:10:02.


Mihdhar complained about life in the United States.


Intelligence report, 1996 Atef study on airplane hijacking operations, Sept. 26, 2001.


For Ballinger's warnings, see Ed Ballinger interview (Apr. 14, 2004).


In deputies meetings at the end of June, Tenet was tasked to assess the prospects forTaliban cooperation with the United States on al Qaeda.


In some ways joint work has gotten better, and in some ways worse.


Our borders and immigration system, including law enforcement, ought to send a message of welcome, tolerance, and justice to members of immigrant communities in the United States and in their countries of origin.


The call to the UAE was originally reported by the CIA on May 16.


This statement was issued the day after the financial markets reopened.


Bandar al Hazmi continued his training at Arizona Aviation with intermittent trips home to Saudi Arabia, before departing the United States for the last time in January 2000.


For the necessity of moving from need-to-know to need-to-share, see James Steinberg testimony, Oct. 14, 2003.


On-duty ladder companies consisted of a captain or lieutenant and five firefighters


The series also included Operation Infinite Resolve, a variety of proposed follow-on strikes on al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan.


In 1998, Clarke chaired an exercise designed to highlight the inadequacy of the solution.


3 billion annual investment in the TSA goes to aviation-to fight the last war.


The General Accounting Office looked into the gun story and was unable to corroborate it.


Agencies need to be able to measure success.


Upon hearing that the camp was to be closed, he and others traveled to al Faruq camp near Kandahar, where they received more training.


Numerous officers responded in order to help injured civilians and to urge those who could walk to vacate the area immediately.


In the interests of promoting candor and protecting privacy, we agreed not to identify most individuals we interviewed.


Imagination is not a gift usually associated with bureaucracies.


Al Qaeda and terrorism was just one more priority added to already-crowded agendas with countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.


The FBI legal attach�'s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneapolis case agent on the telephone.


Attorney's Office or the judge refused, the FISA Court might reject an application for a FISA warrant on the grounds that the agents were attempting to make an end run around the criminal process.


Jane,Dave, and an FBI analyst who was on detail to the CIA's Bin Ladin unit went to New York on June 11 to meet with the agents about the Cole case.


In early May 1996, the CIA received intelligence that Bin Ladin might be leaving Sudan.


For a record of the exchange between John and Dave, see CIA emails, Dave to John, May 17, 18, 24, 2001; CIA email, Richard to Alan, identification of Khallad, July 13, 2001.


The ultimate recipient in Pakistan would then go to the Pakistani hawaladar and receive his money, in rupees, from whatever money the Pakistani hawaladar has on hand.


Upon impact, many were killed or severely injured; others were relatively unharmed.


Several floors of fire would have been beyond the fire-extinguishing capability of the forces that we had on hand.


By taking advantage of them all, we need not depend on any one point in the system to do the whole job.


On KSM's assistance to al Qaeda, see Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 12, 2003 (two reports).


The Washington Center's controllers were looking for the flight, but they were not told to look for primary radar returns.


Because these names were watchlisted with the Thai authorities, we cannot yet explain the delay in reporting the news.


The principal figures on Bush's White House staff would be National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who had been a member of the NSC staff in the administration of George H.W.


Floor-to-ceiling windows in the northwest corner of the West Street level of the lobby had been blown out


He was found to have confederates on both sides of the border.


Hezbollah officials in Beirut and Iran were expecting the arrival of a group during the same time period.


False identities are used by terrorists to avoid being detected on a watchlist.


Whether the lack of coordination between the FDNY and NYPD on September 11 had a catastrophic effect has been the subject of controversy.


With respect to KSM's additional proposal to bomb cargo planes by shipping jackets containing nitrocellulose, KSM states that Bin Ladin expressed interest in changing the operation so that it would involve a suicide operative.


While he continued to monitor the citywide SOD channel, which NYPD helicopters were using, he also monitored the point-to-point tactical channel that the ESU teams climbing in the towers would use.


Some Port Authority civilian employees remained on various upper floors to help civilians who were trapped and to assist in the evacuation.


For aids to the September 11 evacuation, see, e.g., Civilian interview 14 (Apr.


After first declining Hazmi's request for a loan, the administrator agreed to permit him to use the administrator's bank account to receive the $5,000 wire transfer.


We have not interviewed every knowledgeable person or found every relevant piece of paper.


Congressional oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism-is now dysfunctional.


Beyond Las Vegas's reputation for welcoming tourists, we have seen no credible evidence explaining why, on this occasion and others, the operatives flew to or met in Las Vegas.


KSM, who had been indicted in January 1996 for his role in the Manila air plot, was seen primarily as another freelance terrorist, associated with Ramzi Yousef.


For pilot's belief and the helicopter not hovering, see NYPD interview 12, Aviation (Mar.


Certainly, the FDNY was not responsible for the management of the City's response to the emergency, as the Mayor's directive would have required.


The terrorism fostered by Bin Ladin and al Qaeda was different from anything the government had faced before.


As all hope in moving the Taliban faded, debate revived about giving covert assistance to the regime's opponents.


Dubai, a modern city with easy access to a major airport, travel agencies, hotels, and Western commercial establishments, was an ideal transit point.


The man was shot by police and then killed himself on the aircraft while it was still on the ground at the airport.


Although we readily equate KSM with al Qaeda today, this was not the case before 9/11.


The principals also focused on Pakistan and what it could do to turn the Taliban against al Qaeda.


Finally, he directed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to craft a plan to target al Qaeda's funding and seize its assets.


Haznawi (Flight 93) and Wail al Shehri (Flight 11) arrived in Miami from London on June 8, 2001 using the same route as the previous three.


In the struggle against terrorism these distinctions seem increasingly artificial.


The source claimed that Bin Ladin asked for and received assistance from the bomb-making expert, who remained there giving training until September 1996, which is when the information was passed to the United States.


The detainee dates the Slahi meeting to October 1999.


For Atta's travel to the Czech Republic, see ibid.


In May or June, Clarke asked to be moved from his counterterrorism portfolio to a new set of responsibilities for cybersecurity.


Two days later, Ahmed al Ghamdi and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who had been living in New Jersey with Hazmi and Hanjour, flew to Miami-probably signifying that the four hijacking teams had finally been assigned.


For the Gates report's recommendations, see DCI task force report, Improving Intelligence Warning,May 29, 1992.


Once the plane struck, they were prevented from descending because of damage to or impassable conditions in the building's three stairwells.


Their requirements are far more modest in size and complexity.


I do not believe the possible recon value outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN, he wrote.


President Bush later praised this proposal, saying it had been a turning point in his thinking.


For ascertaining building systems' status from building personnel, see FDNY interview 4, Chief (Jan.


For the subsequent identification, see CIA cable, follow-up source on KSM, July 11, 2001.


The Move to San Diego By February 4, Hazmi and Mihdhar had come to San Diego from Los Angeles, possibly driven by Mohdar Abdullah.


One impediment was that the respective DOJ components could not agree on all the proposed reforms.


FBI report of investigation, interview of Jennifer Stangel, Sept. 14, 2001.


Before 9/11, no agency of the U.S. government systematically analyzed terrorists' travel strategies.


See Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 1, 2003; Sept. 5, 2003.


It was never the subject of formal interagency deliberation.


3. The call was placed from a pay phone in Terminal C (between the screening checkpoint and United 175's boarding gate).


The explosion killed six people, injured about 1,000 more, and exposed vulnerabilities in the World Trade Center's and the city's emergency preparedness.


Americans should also consider how to do it-organizing their government in a different way.


For the hotel arrangements, see Intelligence report, interrogation of Khallad, Jan.


The CIA later provided more formal assessments to the White House reiterating that conclusion.


43 Tommy Franks, the commanding general of Central Command (CENTCOM), told us that the President was dissatisfied.


The conversation also contained a reference to the burning of people.


At 10:45 conferees were told to hold off on Defcon 3, but a minute later the order was reinstated.


They concluded that none of the passengers was connected to the 9/11 attacks and have since found no evidence to change that conclusion.


The budget guidance issued the next day, however, highlighted gun crimes, narcotics trafficking, and civil rights as priorities.


The threat that was coming was not from sleeper cells.


Rababah, who had lived in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, told investigators that he had recommended Paterson, New Jersey, as a place with an Arabic-speaking community where Hazmi and Hanjour might want to settle.


We have been told that Pickard and Ashcroft did not have a good relationship.


That same day, the supervisor forwarded the lead to an intelligence agent to open an intelligence case-an agent who thus was behind the wall keeping FBI intelligence information from being shared with criminal prosecutors.


For the chief 's and companies' arrival, see Jules Naudet and Gedeon Naudet, video footage, Sept. 11, 2001; FDNY interview 4, Chief (Jan.


Many PAPD officers were on the ground floors of the complex-some assisting in evacuation, others manning the PAPD desk in 5 WTC or assisting at lobby command posts.


He said that if his advisers had told him there was a cell in the United States, they would have moved to take care of it.


Some FBI investigators doubt Rababah's story.


For example, the Mayor and Police Commissioner consulted with the Chief of the Department of the FDNY at approximately 9:20.


All but 2 of the 15 muscle hijackers were admitted as tourists, affording a six-month stay in the United States (except in the case of Mihdhar, who received four months).


On obtaining clean passports and the two damaged passports, see Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 3, 2003; Sept. 9, 2003.


He joined the rest of his team at their hotel.


He has also stated that Atta included a nuclear plant in his preliminary target list, but that Bin Ladin decided to drop that idea.


We recognize that a costly change in NORAD's defense posture to deal with the danger of suicide hijackers, before such a threat had ever actually been realized, would have been a tough sell.


KSM may have instructed Binalshibh to send money to Moussaoui in order to help prepare Moussaoui as a potential substitute pilot for Jarrah.


Thumairy denies incurring any such disciplinary measures.


Aside from scrutinizing various official records, the Czech government also reviewed surveillance photos taken outside the Iraqi embassy.


Yousef managed to escape to Pakistan, but his accomplice, Murad-whom KSM claims to have sent to Yousef with $3,000 to help fund the operation-was arrested and disclosed details of the plot while under interrogation.


If the United States does not act aggressively to define itself in the Islamic world, the extremists will gladly do the job for us.


The head of the NCTC should have the rank of a deputy national intelligence director, e.g., Executive Level II, but would have a different title.


Binalshibh believes the disagreement arose in part from Jarrah's family visits.


Successful economies rely on vibrant private sectors, which have an interest in curbing indiscriminate government power.


Indianapolis is truly one of the best places for actors to work for many


We provide help by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the Prevention Information Resource Center & Parent Help line.


For these boxes will remain in their wrappings long after all of the other presents are opened.


If we keep our prices low, we need to come to you, our audience members, to ask for a small contribution in order to help us meet this mission.


00 helped make it possible for us to provide guidance, encouragement and fun to nearly 400 Indianapolis area children.


Initially, individuals can take part by making an annual unrestricted gift of $1,000 or more for Chancellor's Circle, or of $500 or more for Chancellors Associates.


Our pediatric physicians are studying birth defects, childhood cancers, blood disorders, and bone marrow Transplant techniques, and our medical and molecular genetics research continues to unravel genetic mysteries.


Your gift at this time may provide you with additional year-end tax benefits.


As you know, the membership of this group includes those friends and alumni who contribute $1,000 or more annually to the law school.


As a child growing up in the 5O's, one of my happiest memories was attending Civic Theatre productions.


If each person receiving this letter gives just $18.


Simply detach the bottom portion, check the option that applies, make any changes to your address if needed and send it in the enclosed envelope.


We still have more than $200,000 left to raise from subscribers and donors such as yourself.


School of Nursing needs your generous gifts to continue and uphold its educational excellence.


80% of participants will report increased conflict resolution skills.


Please do not slide on to our lapsed donor list.


Access to our grounds will be opened to anyone with a computer and a modem.


We invite you to participate in Futures for Children by sponsoring an American Indian child or by joining a Membership Circle to support our community education projects.


I am therefore delighted to extend this invitation today giving you the opportunity to join us as a Charter Associate of the Center on Philanthropy.


Ticket sales and subscriptions cannot finance our complete season


The law school's needs range from purchasing additional computer terminals to paying travel costs of our moot court teams and from refurbishing the Gray Lounge to purchasing necessary reference materials for the library.


NEW ARRIVALS EVERY GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!


We have a long way to go before we reach our goal of $365,000 from friends and subscribers such as yourself.


Our Civil Practice Clinic has operated for several years, and we recently added a Criminal Defense Clinic.


Ticket income doesn't begin to cover the cost of these programs.


The most important benefit of membership in the National Audubon Society gives you nothing immediately tangible in return.


Name organization (if applicable) Address City, State Zip


Linda Hardwick Director of Development &amp


My love affair with the IRT is a long one.


Being an institution that promotes education and learning through the connection of people and the natural world around them, the Society is actively preparing for continued success in the future.


As an Inner Circle member you will receive select seating during the Convention, and special invitations to dinners, receptions and activities throughout the week.


If you have pledged or contributed for 1991, you have my thanks and the appreciation of the administration and faculty of the law school.


I ask you to join me in renewing your pledge of support to the University Libraries at IUPUI, and to consider increasing that contribution.


Costume by Brigitte Doth, Jade Stice, and Penny Laimana.


You can see by reading the code, my friend that there are still many federal and state tax advantages for making charitable contributions.


But there is also intense competition among law schools to attract the best and brightest students.


The degreed educators of the Social Health Association provide in-school presentations in three


Last year, 17% of the Museum's operating budget came from loyal donors' contributions.


.By reaching students whom are not otherwise being reached through school and other community institutions.


In appreciation for your contribution $100 or more to the campaign, you and a guest are invited to attend a special reception on Thursday, March 23,2000 from 5:30- 8:00 PM in Herron Hall.


The boxes will be marked with the names of Cassie, Corey, Rachel, Isaiah, Kelly, Kyle, and the other students of Columbine High School who lost their lives earlier this year.


For the IUPUI University Libraries to have collections, access, and services which meet your expectations requires friends and partners both inside the University and throughout the community, state and nation.


We have so many more accomplishments to strive for, I cannot imagine a better corporate partner to help bring them about.


Whether its a literature topic, a humanities issue, or an important person in history -- every play has a direct tie-in to classroom curriculum.


Gerald L. Bepko 1995 United Way of Central Indiana Campaign Chair


He was for the students an advisor, mentor, chaplain, uncle, and true friend.


To better help us assist you, write, fax or E-mail and tell us more about yourself.


, smaller classes, use of technology), and from a longstanding shortage of student support space (lockers, food service, offices for student organizations).


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation is a non-political 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dependent on your contributions.


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation offers full membership privileges to those who pay only $10.


As we celebrate the 90th birthday of Indiana University School of Medicine, we realize how much we owe to dreamers and their dreams.


As an Inner Circle member you can expect some of the finest seats on the reviewing stand for the world's greatest celebration of democracy --the 52nd American Presidential Inauguration.


I appreciate your consideration and hope that you will participate in this year's Annual Campaign.


Wanda is as aware as any mother can be about the new possibilities you create, which she calls a wonderful thing to know.


The children attending our shows prepare in advance for their theatrical experience through their class's curriculum


This is a wonderful time of year for storytelling.


In November, we sent letters sharing with you a story about the Boys & Girls Club, a wonderful, positive place for children and youth in our community.


His sense of good fortune helped him to be the most beloved dean ever to serve at our law school.


Enclosed is a reply card and envelope with the hope that you will consider beginning 1994 with a gift to IU.


We rely on you and other generous friends to provide the remaining 38 percent.


Your support of the museum's Annual Operating Campaign helps to attract significant works to the collection and present community-wide special exhibitions.


With your involvement, we can help kids - like the little boy pictured on this page-become better citizens.


The thirteen yarn colors of the magnificent rug symbolize the original thirteen colonies of this nation.


This group of donors will directly help the Chancellor meet immediate needs of faculty, students, and staff.


.. spiritual guidance and encouragement.


If we begin our new fiscal year with a deficit, this will be a real challenge.


Although Rock 'n' Roll was racing down the fast lane like a candy apple VETTE, FOREVER PLAID believed in their music.


You already understand the importance of storytelling, poetry, song, and theatre in fostering empathy, compassion, and the imagination.


In the case of animals that are not recovered by-their owners, your Humane Society uses a wide variety of - services to aid those animals and give them a chance at a happy life.


00 Under 6 yr - Free Tour and Military Rate $3.


We hope you will enjoy talking to them, but you can save the IRT administrative money by sending your gift in the return envelope today.


Forty years ago one student, Betty Groh Tower, entered the Medical Record Administration Program to become our first graduate.


With your contribution to the Library, you will become a member of the Citywide Friends.


William Lowe Bryan, the IU president whose dream of a broadly based university led to the founding of IU School of Medicine in 1903.


Your contributed support directly benefits the IRT's outreach programs and leverages match gift monies.


It is time for the proverbial LAST CALL!


It is critical that we educate Americans about the importance of Philanthropy that we develop a new generation of informed and committed leaders.


Performing before more than 6,500 students from K-12, for state professional conferences, for a Pan-Am Media Event and for the U.S.


Due to the generosity of Indiana tax law, a contribution to the University of any amount up to $200 will only cost you half that amount--less the deduction you claim on your federal tax return.


This letter is to let you know that, while we've experienced some success this season, we still need your help to continue our record of strong fiscal management and vibrant theatrical productions.


Last year, more than 48,000 New York State children were abused and neglected -injured, molested, emotionally abused, denied adequate care and supervision.


And we've been doing it for more than 85 years.


One of the devastating consequences of heart disease is the irreparable damage it does to the heart muscle.


I ask you to please give today to the IRT and help them continue the marvelous work they have been producing for 26 years.


I hope you will help us continue the Olympic tradition of excellence.


Since 1914, Civic has maintained its uniqueness by staying true to its


..one you would be proud to be part of and support?


..the world's most thoughtful and motivating nature writers.


Funds are needed here for use as seed money as we work toward establishing projects that should become self-supporting for the school.


The landmark acquisition in December of 75 rare and important hanging scrolls and folding screens is evidence of the commitment to build the IMA's permanent collection of world art.


Unfortunately, our view of the importance of philanthropy is not shared by all Americans.


As a Nussbaum member you have helped us save endangered animals--and their homes.


Each July we celebrate our state's heritage at the Society's Hoosier History Festival.


Our teaching hospitals and research programs receive no state support.


In you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call our Membership Services Coordinator, Chris Young, at (800) 877-6773.


Last year, only 20% of our alumni contributed to the school, up from 14% in 1990.


As a member of the Citywide Friends of the Free Library you will receive a quarterly newsletter informing you of library events and legislative issues.


Enclosed once again is a membership application form and a business reply envelope.


That is also true of famous Hoosiers such as James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene V. Debs and Madam C.J.


Here's the results so far: 5,615 targeted to our non-donor alumni, 81 1.4 percent, largest donation was, and the $2,840 smallest was $5.


This investment has resulted in the renovation and sale of 60 homes to homebuyers of modest means, and in the rehab of more than 100 affordable, high quality apartments.


And that's the wonderful tool of the IRT Education Programs--it lets children witness stories that teach them tools for everyday living and surviving.


On behalf of President Bush, I look forward to working with you in the future.


For several years he performed packaging and clerical work.


I made my Indianapolis debut as a stage director a month ago with Inherit the Wind, a classic of the American stage, attended by more than 5,500 junior high and high school students.


I must therefore tell you why the Center on Philanthropy also deserves your support.


Approximately 25% of the current Cathedral student body receives some amount of financial assistance.


And more than 30% of the kids we serve cannot afford the camp fee.


This letter is to let you know that we still need your help to continue our record of strong fiscal management, vibrant theatrical productions and outstanding educational programs.


And yet within change there will be continuity.


Without your help we will lose some of this grant money.


The research published in Science gives evidence of progress by documenting the first successful transplantation of functional heart cells into an animal model.


There's our art programs for junior and senior high school students which are so critical now with less and less allocated in school budgets for the arts.


Unlike other not-for-profit theatres in the city, our actors make their living from their craft.


Indeed, your history of support of the Lowell Nussbaum Society pays much more than your rent.


As a bonus, we are now able to offer donors of $100 or more a State of Indiana Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) 50% tax credit.


FOREVER PLAID - a name that connotes the continuation of traditional values, of family, home and harmony.


As the local host organization for the National Council of International Visitors, the South Africa Internship Program and Chinese Medical Internships, in 1999 the Center welcomed over 100 guests to central Indiana.


If you would like additional information about the IU School of Medicine campaign or Dr. Field's research, please call 274-3270.


The IMA 's Development Committee will match all pledges received by December 31, 1998 dollar-for-dollar.


-An extensive slide show library on a variety of theatre topics,


Since reservations for our stay in Houston are limited, I hope you will return your Nomination Acceptance today.


It gives me great pleasure to extend to you this invitation to Join the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle in a celebration of our spirit at our Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, August 16-20.


You are invited to become a part of this important new venture to strengthen this growing partnership of two great state universities in Indianapolis.


Again, let me congratulate you on your unanimous nomination for Inner Circle membership and urge you to accept this honor as soon as possible.


Your generosity will help the IRT continue to tell the best stories in the finest manner possible.


Even with the continuing generosity of donors, the Museum has programs and operations that go unfunded each year.


Jerry Bepko, Chancellor of IUPUI, paid tribute to Kent through these remarks.


We can continue to strengthen the education of good lawyers.


It is important and we hope that you will make a significant contribution to the Pursuit of Excellence fund this year.


As we become independent, please help us strengthen the distinction of your degree.


A recent Lou Harris poll indicates that over 66% of today's female business leaders have Girl Scout backgrounds.


You, along with other caring members, will be helping the effort to preserve and promote our state's proud heritage.


Your membership will provide you with admittance to our members only activities as well as full credentials to all official Convention sessions.


This year's alumni luncheon is scheduled for October 23, 1991, during the AMRA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.


Your humane society provides not only effective community social services for animals and their people, but also serves as the pound for the City of Nashua.


The difficulties of the anatomical structure of elephants made what is considered a common procedure among domestic animals extremely problematic.


We may not have had everything that we wanted or we'd seen other people have, but she made sure we had the necessary things that we needed.


I've been affiliated with the IRT for 17 years.


Dialogue with representatives of the city and other civic and community organizations regarding the IMA's development of the Art &amp


While the numbers are impressive, scholarships often are critical in recruiting the top students with financial need.


My intuition, of course, has a very specific basis-you are a person who cares, as demonstrated by your annual stewardship donation to your parish.


My dream is to see every American become part of the Olympic family, so please give whatever you can.


These open seats --Washington, Colorado, and North Dakota --coupled with the ousting of long-term Democrat Alan Dixon, have greatly increased our chances for victory.


In 1990 the Program established the Elton T. Ridley Distinguished Service Award.


In addition, Indiana residents may receive tax benefits through the Indiana tax credit which is applied directly against the bottom line of the state tax return.


Following a show, a young couple came up to the stage to say hello.


We are asking all graduates for a gift of $1000.


In this way the YMCA seeks to fulfill its To put Christian principles into practice through programs that encourage personal growth and build health of spirit, mind and body for all.


Consequently, I know that you go to extra lengths to be compassionate and caring to others.


The Friends operate at two levels -the Citywide Friends and the Branch Friends -and you can become active at either one or both levels.


This is extremely important to the long-term survival of elephants in human care, as well as the wild.


Please give now so we can go on giving back to you and your friends and neighbors.


Commencement 1991 renews memories of student days at Indiana University.


Her name is Amali which means hope - and she is certainly a wonderful representative of the hope that IZS has to further conservation efforts for African elephants in Zoos and in the wild.


But there are many more who still need our help.


Please prayerfully consider how much you can give.


We also emphasize plays that directly relate to history, literature and social study topics.


Omnia vincit amor (unless you work for the Weekly Standard): Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ) speculates on why Lewinsky might not She still has a hopeless crush on the president.


Much has been made of hiring Michael Apted to bring a more human touch to the series.


to watch a girl in a white fur parka and boots


What the movie neglects to mention is that Kaufman had often talked about how he would like to pull off his own death.


Rockefeller was caught up in this anguished giving when Avenging Angel Tarbell began to rend his flesh in McClure's.


The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik says the Venice Biennale is overpopulated by [a]ging Pop artists, years removed from their best work (Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg), [who] sit alongside...


Nancy Griffin writes in Hollywood Strikes Back that Michael Eisner extended an olive branch to former friend Mike Ovitz, but Ovitz declined to accept it.


More recently, in a trade case in New York, Klayman found himself on the other end of charges of ethnic bias.


One would hardly expect a roomful of corporate reps to hiss, boo, and shout bullshit at a sitting U.S. labor secretary.


Just because nurture has a more significant effect on athletic performance doesn't mean that nature lies dormant, though.


Once home, I learned the United States cuts off supplies in two ways.


The world's oldest and largest university press--Oxford--has just announced that it is canceling its poetry list.


The publication of the RPH book is followed by the book tour, which leads to the next fact about the


There's a consolation prize for humanity, though.


This week the Enquirer offers a preview of Ken Starr's report on the great love affair, which will enumerate romps in the Presidential limo, the Oval Office and even the LINCOLN BEDROOM!


This is what Sidewalk It recorded the URLs of TicketMaster's transaction pages, where you buy tickets for specific shows.


Sports aren't the only events to bet on at these sites.


On Aug. 25, after the Democratic convention had opened in Atlantic City, N.J., Johnson, then 56 years old, threatened in three recorded conversations to withdraw from the presidential race.


Lamar Alexander dropped his presidential bid.


On top of this sorry civil-liberties record are the misuse of the FBI in the White House's own original travel-office investigation, and what has come to be known as Filegate.


Tung has vowed to crack down on property speculators, but many think his bark will be worse than his bite.


The complaints covered the baggage problems, surly flight attendants, mysteriously canceled flights, billing atrocities.


Lawrence Singleton, a notorious rapist who hacked off his victim's forearms and then spent only eight years in prison, has been arrested in the stabbing to death in Florida of another woman.


The New Republic 's Charles Lane says that News of a Kidnapping merely extends Gabriel Garcaa Marquez's record of dishonest journalism.


There are many options for attacking the logic of this cosmological argument, and contemporary opponents of theism have tried them all.


The courthouse is not the only political circus in Washington this morning.


It's obvious that our discussion must rest until this ambitious book is published.


This budget makes some big--if dubious--choices, if only implicitly.


Through it all, Morris maintains that what he was doing was really very high-minded.


The World Health Organization announced that a new strategy for treating tuberculosis could save 10 million lives over the next decade.


Jacob Weisberg's excellent essay, Car Talk, on the key to this year's gubernatorial and municipal elections, redefines the word autocracy.


The cover story reviews the latest research on how babies think.


Not content to disgrace Clinton morally, his adversaries tried to inflate his cover-up of the Lewinsky affair into crimes and impeachable offenses.


Now why is that better than becoming a fur coat?


Yet, even in USA Today 's recent in-the-black years, the paper has been a magnet for negative media-critic boilerplate.


When this technique works, you get a powerful story, albeit one whose subject is not revealed until around the third paragraph.


Monetary cost of keeping the microwave for a $6.


sexual or excretory activities or organs.


The only book question on the NEA survey is Have you read any literature in the past year?


Woodward's is the best look we're likely to get at Colin Powell's psyche.


Some of these concepts have demonstrated their success at an experimental level and are ripe for expansion.


Using these eight simple techniques, you can fabricate a news story in the comfort of your own home.


Samuel Sheinbein will serve a murder sentence in Israel.


Time 's profile of Kenneth Starr depicts him as conservative, overzealous, and nerdy.


The Senate agreed that a new agency should supervise nuclear weapons research.


The Politicization of Nearly Everything (Literary Division) proceeds apace.


Modern women love to be thin, but they also want their strength to look physical, not just emotional or mental, in the Romantic vein.


This is the ultimate Republican fallback.


Rudolph Giuliani defends his handling of the Amadou Diallo shooting to Newsweek. [The New York Police Department] is not the KKK, he offers.


Monday through Friday delivery of James Surowiecki's Moneybox column, plus other Slate economic and financial articles.


That's a gray area, says John Kirkwood, who is with the ALA of Metropolitan Chicago.


Of all the unsatisfactory people I EVER met--


This question is about the etiquette of having a love affair with a macroeconomist.


Of course, there was a good reason to think the government had it in for King--the government did have it in for King.


The best tactic for a situation tainted by your own imperfection is to define yourself as the happy medium, superior to those on both your left and right.


Lamar Alexander's way out is worth noting, though it doesn't rise to the level of illogic.


Of course, this disaggregation of content may be ruinous for magazines like Slate.


One thing these postwar tract-home developments did have in abundance was kids, and considered as kid cities, they were wonderfully designed.


My second set of objections to the communitarian explanation of Littleton is the way it over-blames parents.


The conventional wisdom about the musical Ragtime continues to fluctuate.


Top honors go to the Riven --an upgrade to the best-selling computer game of all time, Myst --about a person marooned on an island.


More The Anti-Defamation League's survey describes a continuing drop in America's hard core anti-Semites--from 29 percent in 1964, to 20 percent in 1992, to 12 percent currently.


Sullivan invokes the mantra of equal treatment as if it's an argument-ender.


Taliban rule has not been popular with non-Pashtun communities or the more sophisticated, liberal-minded residents of the major cities, especially Kabul.


Prudence, our advice columnist, has retired, and her column has been taken over by her niece, also named Prudence.


Newsweek says tourists and celebs are flocking to Patagonia, once a haven for escaped Nazis.


Newsweek exposes how far the pro wrestling industry will go to keep fans interested.


Nor does democratization change the underlying reality of international geography.


It's too bad that the noise about Finkelstein has drowned out his co-writer, Birn.


Part of the answer, I suspect, is sociological.


Slope vs. Much of the debate turns on which issues are associated with abortion.


So, I called U-Haul to inquire about its rental policies.


The real cause for concern is that HMOs may fail to control costs in the long term.


The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.


Still, the inevitable death of Pokemon presents us with the opportunity to create the replacement phenom and cash in on it.


knowing all the while that, having known, I always will know this torn, singular voice


So what about a hybrid plan--subscriptions for heavy users, and micropayments for the rest?


Pamela Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to France, legendary Democratic Party financier, and serial wife and lover to great men of the 20 th century, died of a brain hemorrhage at 76.


To the contrary, a government offer of money is not coercion--and not even remotely comparable to what goes on in China.


With software, the agency is an independent, trusted body verifying that software comes from where it claims.


The arguments the administration now makes about food stamps, of course, can easily be made about basic welfare--TANF--too.


Looking for the Key to Keeping Safe (Sorry for the bad pun.)


The mayor of Letohrad, the town where Josef Korbel grew up, says he sent Albright three letters in recent years.


Raves for Mrs. Dalloway keep coming, but a more critical take also emerges.


The notion of having college freshmen explore the realities of these two campuses in a Diary (Seth Bisen-Hersh of MIT, Ben Trachtenberg of Yale) is very appealing--the problem arises in the execution.


Please understand that Federal Regulations prohibit FAA personnel, XXXX Airlines, and all other air carriers from sharing specific information regarding this program with the public.


Well, somehow I suspect that the residents of Madrid and Atlanta, while they may regret some loss of tradition, prefer modernity.


Now, these are not issues that ivory-tower libertarians would ignore.


The pursuit of contributions from the high-tech community is one of the reasons that some candidates have gone to great lengths to develop a high-tech platform.


Our more aggressive respondents, excited to nail entire bodies of work in one go, bypassed books and went straight for the authors themselves.


The doc 3 milligrams a night is waaaaay too much.


It's not just that Bradley opposed the ethanol subsidy until the other day.


Moreover, as far as we know, life emerged here on earth only once.


Today's question reminds me of the one and only time I went to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Pageant, at which, among other things, they offer something called the Living Nativity.


The Clinton administration's position is that the Internet should be a federal duty-free zone.


So irradiating food seems safe, effective, and cheap.


The Smithsonian Natural History Web (page down two or three times)


The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that young writers such as Glass who crack up deserve sympathy because the system pressures them into becoming stars before they are journeymen.


Others answered the question, but Keyes stuffed it.


To sing good fortune to come to those I fear for,


Talk-show guests these days often have had formal training in how to avoid answering questions, and every 3-year-old knows how to deliver a prepackaged sound bite.


The same can't be said for the New York Times. In its editorial on the cocaine controversy, the Times advised Bush to be honest, and to let the country take his measure.


Many of the young donors' parents are longtime political activists who know the rules.


Steven E. Landsburg exhibited a rather alarming disregard for common sense in his recent article Tax the Knickers Off Your Grandchildren.


Just regarding the complaint about reliance on girlfriends, though, Prudie suggests you have a loooong and serious heart-to-heart with your wife, outlining your disturbance with her choices.


Obviously, being fairly arbitrary, many of the AFI choices may not lend themselves to sound cultural interpretation.


Walcott trained to be a painter--like his schoolteacher father, who died when Walcott was a baby--and The Bounty is his most painterly book, in method and theme.


Whatever happened to the military's traditional heartless approach of finding a scapegoat?


Michael Lewis, interviewed about his book Trail Fever, observed that Alexander did something I didn't think possible in this campaign.


The most irritating sight on a New York street (excluding Donald Trump's naked swing dancing with the ghost of Boss Tweed) is anyone jabbering into a cell phone.


Newsweek 's cover story argues that North America was first peopled by a Rainbow Coalition of ethnic types, not just the Bering Strait-crossing Asians commonly depicted in history textbooks.


Personally, Prudie is not wild about boyfriend and girlfriend for people over 30, and she loathes the term lover except when used by European women.


The Greenlee County, Ariz., public library illustrates the money and technology woes of rural institutions.


You cannot remove these.dll files while Windows is running (which is part of Microsoft's point).


The folks at L'academie Internationale des Arts et des Sciences Numeriques have innovated a clever variant on this trick.


Which camp is right has enormous public health consequences.


Such ebullitions of insanity continued for three decades, becoming more rococo.


Let me close by answering in advance the question that I know I'll be asked in e-mail, namely, Are you really serious?


Or, consider the issue of informing Congress about covert actions.


Nemeth promised to investigate the motel in question.


Wednesday, Clinton chose to talk about a different industry.


The trick is to think of me less as the new sheriff in town and more as one of the nannies the von Trapp children killed before Maria.


Never mind the question of whether the Dow Jones industrial average is the proper measure of how well the rich are doing.


The most striking implication of the CMP theory is that the concern for relative position vanishes in societies where mates are allocated by mechanisms other than wealth.


Keeping the integrationist faith are black liberals like Professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. Joining them is black economist Glenn Loury, a conservative who broke ranks to endorse affirmative action as a necessary policy.


Property is an endless succession of bubbles in space, or cyberspace, with different people claiming an endless variety of interests in them.


Will anyone remember the World Trade Organization in half a century?


Still alive at 93, de Kooning is now neither artist nor channel surfer.


None of these has much current appeal, luxe notwithstanding.


Third, even if we accept the conclusions, they don't apply to all mass entertainment venues.


The Teacher of the Year program is sponsored by Scholastic Inc., best known among impressionable school children for distributing cool magazines whose exclusive advertiser is the U.S.


To suppress the image of homosexuality as a vice, Clinton and Birch attribute civic virtues to gays.


Many of your suggestions involved actions that, while amusing and cruel, are not illegal but merely unlikely (Most men would be too scared to lift it while the monkey was in the room.)


Sometimes this personal process of maturity or decay (take your pick) is reinforced by what's happening in the culture.


there, click Actress. You should find yourself...


Newsweek runs a rant bemoaning the glitzification of the Hamptons.


My hero, though, is Richard Heseltine, the chairman of the Overseas Investment Trust, who resigned earlier this month in opposition to the business plan forced on him by his superiors.


Stevenson's article shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what our campaign entails.


The basic flow of world history, as I'm not the first to note, is toward interdependence.


Real noise appeals to the young and appalls the old.


The Science studies also ignore simple truths about brain chemistry.


We've become so accustomed to hearing U.S. companies complain about foreign competition that it's easy to see Kodak's post-defeat recriminations as just more whining.


The body of Dowd's work as a columnist, and in particular the Flytrap pieces that won her the Pulitzer, is one of the most brilliant examples yet of boomer self-castigation.


Whether this combination of facts and speculation is grounds for demonstrations of protest is a matter of taste.


Media conglomeration runs in cycles, so the fish currently progressing through the bellies of the media kings may not stay there for long.


Russia is facing increasing challenges in the Chechen war.


The FDA's regulations do not make it harder for adults to buy cigarettes.


The ending theories identify ages with distinguishing features that have come to an end or will come to an end and will not recur.


Time interviews Deborah Eappen, grieving mother in the Louise Woodward au pair case.


The impassioned cover story warns that America's national parks are being ruined by overcrowding, underfunding, invasion by exotic plant and animal species, and commercial development.


) On returning to base one parks one's car in a motor-home--where else?


One can imagine a bulldozer operator as he blades out a road for a new development being hailed by the developer Hey, Loyd ...


I reported this in a letter to Dr. it seemed to amuse him, and he sent me a small fruitcake that Christmas.


The team had previously been known by the memorable designation Beaneaters , which, in a curious way, might also be considered an Indian nickname.


It is gratuitously assumed that Yiddish ...


And I sympathize with your remark on page 19: Brunner's First Law of Authorship In any given body of text there is at least one error that its writer has read straight past three times.


I couldn't find such a definition in the thesaurus.


Moreover, it contains only terms known to have arisen in the Twentieth Century, according to the Preface, but omits the military slang of the earlier 20th century.


If one had the 1984 edition, he might well resent having to buy this book rather than a briefer (and less expensive) Supplement.


It might be argued that the writing should be phonemic, not phonetic, but phonemes change, too, though more slowly.


Split Ends a Cosmetology Shop is a nice example of appositional elegance combined with euphemism in the appositive and the low key or off-beat opening.


If you find any Peculiar (Missouri) names or ones that comes as a Surprise (Nebraska), just Jot 'Em Down (Texas) Safely (Tennessee)--unless, of course, they are Errata (Mississippi).


Literacy and numeracy have come to the fore in recent years as major issues, not only (or even so much) in the Third World as in the industrialized nations.


It is not suggested that these subjects be interdicted, merely that it is difficult, even after some twenty years of acculturation, for an outlander to discern much that is funny about them.


Finally, one must be wary of elongation that carries with it a distinctly different meaning.


One thing M. Tesniares hasn't reckoned with, though, is the Anglo-Saxon input.


No other profession has so rich a tradition of self-deprecation.


And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial resumes.


If lite/light simply describes a characteristic of the beer (e.g.


Vanilla , extracted from the seedpods of a tropical plant, was borrowed from Spanish vainilla , which denoted the flower, the pod, or the flavoring.


The poor overworked noun was even used where neither it nor any alternate was needed.


On top of all this, we have the unhappy fact that eloquent writing is indeed sometimes memorable, compounding the problem.


On a ranch you might hear someone say, Today we've got to cut those penned steers, meaning perhaps `separate out the ones to be shipped.


Confronted with this attitude and somewhat awed, the British acknowledged their respect by capitalizing the word.


Original animal metaphors are all but obliterated in words that have no reference to animals.


The association of money names with other weights is ouguiya (Mauritania) means `ounce.


If ever I write an autobiography it will be in dictionary names of places and people defined in terms of private significance.


A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.


Oh, you and your witty repartees and bons mots.


[ In all fairness, it must be said that Mr. Room wrote as soon as he realized his slip in referring to the Bummel as a river.


(`In the school patios the great noise-- hubbub --is ceasing.


As it happens, of course, there are more distinctive dialects of English in Britain than in North America, and anyone who has spent any time listening to them knows that some are mutually unintelligible.


' A Tennessee informant used dog weather for `hot, rainless weather,' which may derive from the expression dog days referring to dry August weather.


an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of either one's own face or, through giving offense, that of the audience, or of some third party.


It is a way of saying, I am an outlaw, a mountain man!


These things are outside of man, while style is man himself.


For example, diagnosis was borrowed from a Greek word (which, incidentally, did not mean the same thing); two hundred years afterwards, the verb diagnose --a back formation --was coined.


I hope to live to the year 2000 to help with the Yiddish Guide . I am sure that Yiddish will still be around, surviving its detractors, as it has for a thousand years.


(It has been said, not altogether jokingly, that if the Japanese were required to pay a license fee for every English word they used, their trade surplus would vanish.)


Speakers who want to impress their audiences know they have to telegraph key points and facts, then announce them, then repeat, dramatize, explain, and embellish.


It is curious to note that terms not appearing on the list included slow learner, neurological handicap, brain injury, and educational handicap.


The Cambridge University Press has seen fit to honor the 200th anniversary of Boswell's Life of Johnson with a collection of fourteen essays on the biographer and his subject.


In most common use are the words in the third group that originally define sexual acts.


Some names, although they may be objectionable, are not changed.


As a proud Scot myself, I feel that a much more probable reason for this apparent lack of linguistic ambition is to be found in the regional dialect.


I have never understood why the International Phonetic Alphabet is not used in English dictionaries of all sorts, but this is beyond the scope of our remarks in this review.


(a) Change each d or t in the target to c.


' Another example comes from VIP `Vasoactive Intestinal Poly-peptide.


Grammar and glamour are historically the same word.


As all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself as praying, I was a little ashamed.


If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.


Nothing underscores the subtle complexities of language more strikingly than the miscommunications that occur among pilots, crew members, and air traffic controllers.


Some of the book's lexical entries are questionable.


In modern French novels about military experiences, however, one may find a soldier proposing to his buddies, Allons, les gars.


One of the latest words to enter the Abbreviation Cycle of Redundancy Race is Missouri . The Show-Me state gained statehood in 1821.


Continence, after all, is a virtue, or so say those who do not have it imposed on them.


In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.) and not deviate from them.


And we know that Professor Honey has it right when he writes about


Lil Armstrong, who was the pianist for the session, improvised the answer, That's named `Muskrat Ramble'; isn't that right, Red?


The next week, my nephew asked for an acoustic guitar for his birthday.


One of the linguistic phenomena to have emerged during the last hundred years or so is the acceptance of the notion that an important step in solving problems lies in naming them.


There are nationalities and ethnic groups so confident, so satisfied with themselves that ethnic epithets either bounce off them like pebbles off an elephant or are adopted as amusing or even ornamental.


The dictionaries I have checked are silent--improperly so, I think--on these senses.


Goistering was a curious term for loud feminine laughter; a bad worker was called his excuse might well be, Old Laurence has got hold of me today!


He rhymed it with pandemonium ; judging from the lawsuits which proliferate over condominium parking spaces, balcony barbecues, and pets pooping in the halls, he might have been right to use the neologism.


She insisted that he fly home means `She wanted him to fly home,' though whether he actually did or not would be revealed in a later chapter.


One rares back and uses this phrase when one finds himself in surroundings of unaccustomed elegance, such as sipping an aperitif in an elegant restaurant with a bevy of tuxedoed waiters dancing attendance.


In 1972, Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. acquired the Lite beer label in a buyout of Meister Brau Inc.


[XVIII,4] refers to huevos in its slang sense, `balls,' not its literal sense, `eggs.


schlock `shoddy, cheaply produced merchandise.


'Without this explanation, the information that surname is from French surnom seems to me to be of very little interest.


To the horror of some Western readers, however, he was at least once quoted out of context as having threatened to bury America.


Mr. Kaplan's generation has largely died off, and its progeny have become Americanized.


Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum.


The twelve articles collected under the general rubrics of Contexts of responsiveness, Listener response and communication, and Responsive readers have mixed success in dealing with the subject.


Spanish cursing and swearing is inventive-- echar sapos y culebras literally, means `to throw out frogs and snakes.


196), for instance, we learn that the original lingua franca (Italian, Frankish language) was a hybrid language.


rom the beginning people had to have names to identify themselves.


(Before continuing, the reader may wish to try this feat, too.)


grantsmanship a form of panhandling in which the participants are very well dressed.


In this way, the spelling of a word often relates to that of other words belonging to the same paradigm, or to its own history.


In response to Richard Lederer's call for submissions in a most graceful and coherent eleven-word supersentence contest [ The Glamour of Grammar, XVI,4], I offer the


The an inadvertent omission of a hyphen from the computer's mass of coded mathematical ascent guidance instructions.


In a sense, it seems illogical that we have retained the historic spellings for Spenser's works yet use modern spellings for the titles of plays by his contemporary, William Shakespeare.


Two reference librarians were at a loss as to how to begin a search.


Nothing comes from nothing, Lucretius argued two thousand years ago, and tautologists have proved him right.


I had not been on the Continent long when I wanted to buy some nylons for a girl friend.


Its official name was Flavian Amphitheater , after the family name of its builder, the emperor Vespasian.


When Alice objected, But that's a different kind of fastness, he replied, It was all kinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!


Here along Oil Creek, Indians skimmed the surface oil off the water for domestic uses, and white settlers bottled it for medicinal purposes and called it Seneca Oil.


Of course, not every typographical error should be ascribed to a hidden unconscious motive on the part of the typesetter (or typist).


The linguists who write books seem invariably to be scholars who are touting their own points of view, some of which are recondite, to say the least.


Seen any shepherds on Broadway lately or even mentioned in The New York Times?


One segment of the armed forces is the Construction Batallion, which was quickly abbreviated to C.B.


Skeat will not in this case ignore this note and repeat the offence at some future time.


The law of trademarks, which fills more than two volumes of the Annotated U.S.


I can sympathize, therefore, with their rejection of the term Negro as a racist term.


Mr. Nields replied, I'm perfectly happy to use the expression `lengthy statements.


For example, a program chairman prepared in longhand a few laudatory introductory remarks about a ..


Deborah Cameron and Deborah Hills (`Listening in': negotiating relationships between listeners and presenters on radio phone-in programmes ) have studied the output of LBC Radio, London's all-talk station, which I have listened to with interest.


Such a composition would no doubt leave the impression that the string section had suddenly caught fire.


In other words, what happens is something like the legerdemain of a magician's now-you-see-it-now-you-don't.


Scars of Venus A rash produced by secondary syphilis.


An advertisement in Rivington's New York Gazette on October 6, 1774, wanted a young man acquainted with keeping books in the Italian method, and another was from one who, wants a place.


But if he uses the grammer, vocabularly, and idiom of the standard English found in newspapers, books, magazines, and news bulletins, then all we notice about his speech is his accent--and possibly his intonation.


They sat at a computer terminals and would key in some kind of alphanumeric code that evoked many names.


Thus, dents are called nudgies , and major dents--the ones that require more than $500 to repair-- are owies .


For one thing, a cliche can be defined as an imaginative expression which through repetition has lost its imaginativeness.


Besides the lexicon, grammar--especially syntax--has changed somewhat, too, though again not so much as to be incomprehensible to the average modern reader.


I find nothing interesting, entertaining, or useful about any of the following, which are fairly typical of the


The only reference I have that mentions the strip at all ( The Penguin Book of Comics) is rather sketchy on detail.


Moreover, publishers are today generally less reluctant than before to make available to researchers the disks and tapes containing text.


Money has also derived its names from things or animals.


Hackers , or just plain droupies , probably have no trouble translating what I just wrote out of computer jargon and slang into more conventional English.


But even though as a boy I lived on a ranch right on the Mexican border, I remember being mystified by ranching terms that crept into Western songs from north of us, cayuse, for example.


In fact there are well over one hundred syllothetic modifiers.


'The e stands for the phoneme /e/, which in this word is pronounced like the e in ebb in all varieties of Yiddish.


Section 8 discharge is ordered for this incorrigible company fxxxup.


The truth is that cross-talk may at times resemble all three ironies, depending on the intent, audience, and effect.


However, as Mr. Levitt's daughter pointed out, it is usually found as a stretchy tie used to bind things up, as a reefed mainsail on its boom, light articles to a luggage rack, etc.--Editor.


The subjective satisfactory , and ordinary word rather than a legal one, is a trouble-maker and should be avoided.


If Esperanto is aspiring to become a real language, then it must begin to behave like one and, before long, it will begin to suffer the same weaknesses that natural languages suffer--polysemy and pleurisemy.


Despite that, Honey's treatment is virtually self-explanatory, and anyone contemplating a work on American accents would do well to be guided by the principles he has established.


The deleteriously loaded term elaborate scheme popped into the hearings with Representative Jack Brooks' words, ..


I was as fast as--as lightning, you know.


It seems to be a way station between polytheism and monotheism, a useful concept that provides a missing link in the evolutionary process.


When I took my first office job in Switzerland, I had a secretary who knew no French or English, so that I had to write letters in these languages by hand for her to type.


The intricacies of the Gallic subjunctive do not worry him at all, and for the best reason in the he does not even bother to try.


But he would indeed be feigning naavete to claim that generic man is now understood to include woman.


As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.


In the same way, manual typewriters depend on the full force of the fingers to create words, rather than on electric (or electronic) assistance.


It seems silly to separate Gruyare the cheese from Gruyare the place in Switzerland whence it comes' indeed, the latter is not even an entry in the geographical sections of either dictionary.


See that curious little beast over there?


I derive enormous enjoyment from reading through back issues of such periodicals, a rather formidable prospect when you consider that each year makes up two volumes of about 400-odd pages each.


That Swede church isn't quite the same as That Swedish church.


I was raised (Southern for being brought up by one's parents) where the train station, or depot, was the DEE-po.


No one seems to know if these sports are played on a court with a net, against a wall, or both.


One difference is that other groups need to do so because in order to function they must either attach new meanings to existing words and phrases or coin new words and pharases.


Some American place names have a unique resonance about them--places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming, or Greasy Creek, Arkansas, Lickskillet, Kentucky, or Scroungeout, Alabama.


Despite their reputation for distrusting polyglots, it is by no means unusual for Englishmen to be bilingual.


Thus, once a pleasing motif has been discovered, the next least exerting is to reproduce it with a slight variation.


The Auld Alliance, a treaty of accord between France and Scotland, was born.


This is not to say that the Western tradition has a monopoly on Niceness.


The major Italian guidebook to Rome soberly claims that this building has been nicknamed Il Colosseo Quadrato , `The Square Colosseum.


Caller says, Thank you for taking my call.


Its precursor was the now quite obsolete strangury (1398) `slow and painful urination.


Via di Ripetta imperceptibly merges into Via della Scrofa `Street of the Sow,' named after another ancient sculpture that is still preserved there.


And rest easy, Miss Dalrymple, when I reedit speech scripts for print publication, I always revert to good old academically pure English usage.


There is a linguistic process in the evolution of our vocabulary that is not functioning with a high rate of efficiency.


A number of them might have been created by prisoners whose vocabularies were too small to accommodate the concepts, events, or situations named.


Inglish differs from English in five words, expressions, grammar, pronunciation and rhythm.


One must be very cautious in proposing etymologies that attribute the origin of a word to playfulness or they often turn out to be folk etymologies and totally empty of anything more than hollow speculation.


Davidson should not adopt the pronunciation of scone to rhyme with `bone'--at any rate not because Victoria, where he lives, is veddy English.


The average novel of 200,000 words for $25 works out at 8,000 words per dollar.