• James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.

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  • In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.

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  • The original idea behind the Bush administration's changes to the H-2A program--which went through a lengthy rulemaking process--was to cut out the red tape in the visa process and make the wage structure more efficient.

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  • So if you have cobbled together many out-of-sequence events on tape or film, they'll appear that way in your digital vault.

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  • Second, the regulatory environment will be simplified by cutting out red tape when we introduce a one-stop shop for businesses to deal with regulators.

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  • He trained his reporters in covert tape-recording techniques and would even set up fake companies to carry out stings.

    BBC: Tabloid tactics

  • He also made a home-made ball out of a bandage, string and some tape, and then got grumpy when BB made him hand it in.

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  • Well, if you want to create the next-big thing, you should check out the book, TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story.

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  • Listening to the tape -- to include the broccoli comment, the analysis of broccoli -- many people, critics are out here just lambasting him.

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  • Gayle's team-mates showed their solidarity by not attending a promotional event by sponsor Digicel earlier this week, while they blocked out the company's logo on the left arm of their shirts with tape for the one-day international against England.

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  • The reason why I love covers, and this has been something I blogged about many times, and I've actually had - long before "Soul Sides Volume 2" ever came out, I put together my own mix tape of just covers.

    NPR: Soul Sides: A Love for Soul Music

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