This is the content of an email: Kimberly; This is to confirm Mr. Lavorato's attendance as a VP PRC Committee observer to the following meeting: ? EES VP PRC on 12 July beginning at 8:00 am (location TBD) EES HR will provide you with additional details on the location of this meeting. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Regards,

Subject: VP PRC Committee observer assignments.

This is the content of an email: Joseph: Please contact these folks and remind them that 1) i'm not a lobbyist, 2) i'm not registered as a lobbyist, and 3) i don't qualify as a lobbyist. thanks a million. Jeff

Subject: Reminder letter for California filing deadline

This is the content of an email: I suggest we give GE a time line for completing each of the break out contracts. I'm unfamiliar with the individual project requirements, so I'm asking your help. I believe City of Austin is ready to go as soon as the form is complete, and it could be a great candidate for working on immediately. I know the ESA project has some time sensitivity as well. Please let me know what you think. Kay

Subject: Break contracts/Priority setting

This is the content of an email: blue rinse (BLOO rins) adjective Related to elderly women. [From the hair-dye used on grey hair that produces a blue shade.] "If the race comes down to a former officer married to an aristocrat and blessed with four children - or a quiffed Spaniard with a gay past and a soft line on drugs, who do you think the blue rinse brigade will choose?" Jonathan Freedland, Still Lost in the Wilderness, The Guardian (London), Jul 11, 2001. Ever wonder how our vocabulary is colored by many hues of a rainbow? Often we use colors as symbols for ideas, thoughts, and concepts but do it with little logic. Take the color blue, for example. A blue chip stock is good to hold in one's portfolio while we're chary of blue-sky stock. A blue collar worker is a manual laborer yet a bluestocking is one with intellectual inclinations. A bluenose is a prude but a blue blood is aristocratic. Even a computer would go crazy trying to make sense of this. No wonder we made artificial languages to program computers. In this week's AWAD we take a look at other words and phrases tinged with colors. -Anu
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--blue rinse