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And we can't have the coffee that comes with our complimentary continental breakfast because they might have drawn the water first thing in the morning without letting the taps run for the two minutes required to flush the lead out of the pipes.
The thumb ring, even more than the earrings that have been there all along, taps fertile ground, its associations with rebellion and the unwillingness to conform inevitable.
The actual issue is not explained, but the charge taps into the populist anger about stagnant wages, foreign competition, and the globalization that both Clinton and Dole, in fact, have supported.
When the government starts any new enterprise, it always taps the made guys--not the students of Herbert Marcuse.
"He is not better than a trained or 'insider' artist," writes Stevens, "but he taps sources of power now lost to sophisticated art."