Until then the family had viewed the eggs as a nuisance that would "fall out of the fish on the processing room floor and create a yucky mess, " says Eason.

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On the Jaffna Peninsula the army converted a former officers' mess into a 22-room luxury resort.

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The aides set up shop in the Ward Room, a small, private conference room next to the White House mess in the West Wing basement.

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" Those are the words Mr. Obama used in January 2012 to ridicule Commerce, adding in the White House East Room that the department was "a mess" and that "these kinds of inefficiencies exist across government.

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