Although on paper they sound like the worst patients ever (who wants an after-dark appointment with a werewolf?), their supernatural powers make for plotlines that cleverly relate to real-world issues – a zombie starts a narrative on assisted suicide, while anti-werewolf feeling proves a metaphor for racial discrimination.
Requesting anonymity, one source indicated that the proportion may be higher still, because some awardees may be keeping NIH in the dark about their appointments so as not to endanger the K99 portion of their funding.
The first BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, was something of a dark horse and surprise appointment in 2007, having not been publicly named as a contender.
My ancient master's thesis on his English-language novels and a mumbled story about a research project on "Laughter in the Dark" won me an appointment, and on a recent day I visited the Berg's frigid reading room on the fifth floor of the library's main branch.
It's really quite depressing that when England have the best group of young players since the mid 90s, and the most technically competent youth teams we've probably ever had, the FA decide to take England even further back into the dark ages with this appointment.
Her appointment came amid dark days for Yahoo, only three months after the Internet behemoth laid off 2,000 employees.
"For the first time in Italian history, the party system has given up making appointments in the dark, with no official candidates, and has instead accepted the principle of transparency and competence in decision-making," proclaimed the Open Media Coalition, a group that has been calling for more openness in the selection process for Agcom and other regulatory panels dealing with media issues.
"For the first time in Italian history, the party system has given up making appointments in the dark, with no official candidates, and has instead accepted the principle of transparency and competence in decision making," crowed the Open Media Coalition, a group that has been calling for more openness in the selection process for Agcom and other regulatory panels dealing with media issues.
Other barriers included having to carry heavy items, needing the car for work appointments, walking in dark or unpleasant surroundings, pollution, shift work and the nature of the terrain: 'I come down a very steep, two very steep hills … so walking in is not an issue, walking home is a bit more of an issue … it takes longer, it's more tiring' (participant E2, male, 52).
Mr. Danforth, who promised on the day of his appointment to answer "the dark questions," has not commented since.
APPOINTMENT WITH DANGER, UNION STATION, DARK CITY Anthony Mann's 1947 sleeper hit "T-Men," about heroic Treasury Department agents battling counterfeiters, seemed to touch off a boomlet of movies about under-publicized law-enforcement agencies.
