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Playing off yesterday's front-page WSJ story reporting that Barbie is scheduled for breast reduction ("Today's Papers" missed that one, being too preoccupied with other pressing Barbie news), USAT assigns seven reporters to the story.
After the House voted not to renew the administration's fast-track trade negotiating authority last fall, the White House became preoccupied with fostering a more productive relationship with Hill Democrats, according to White House officials.
Over the past decade, those interested in reform have been preoccupied with managed care measures and, more recently, with consumer-directed measures that increase costs to patients by requiring greater out-of-pocket spending.
They seem to have been much more preoccupied with a certain black football player's murder trial.
Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...