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The loss of control over the damper settings resulted in uncontrolled rates of outdoor air supply in Building 1 after December 2000.
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.
The paper adds that one of Rainwater's many companies, an operator of psychiatric hospitals, is being investigated for patient abuse and Medicare fraud but doesn't explain how a newly elected Bush could possibly put a damper on the already-ongoing investigations.
So if that wasn't enough to put a damper on anyone's mood, some radio reporters decided it was a good time to let us now that after all the spraying of mosquitoes (the stuff seems to kill butterflies and other birds and also adversely affect humans with asthma), we could have the same outbreak of Nile fever encephalitis next spring.
The only slight damper was the Fed chairman's remark that the money supply will have to be tightened "at some point to foster sustainable growth and low inflation."
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