But all the presentations shared a common goal: to provide a "hopeful new beginning for the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica," as a handout put it.
We were trained to process death this way; told from Day 1 that, as a training handout put it, "fire shelter deployments have always been attributed to violations of The 10 Standard Fire Orders and the 18 Situations that Shout Watch Out," the core set of rules and guidelines all wildland firefighters know by heart.
A government handout put the number at 40, of whom 11 were under review and two had already received a negative ruling.
Starting today, a Czech crystal chandelier ($2,000 retail) will sell for $400, and a decoupaged armoire finished by, as the publicity handout puts it, elite American artisans ($7,250 retail) is marked down to $3,480.
This is particularly true in the Caribbean, where, as an exhibition handout puts it, "plants grow at such a quick pace that the gardener's most useful tool can be a machete".
Hence, "Encounters" tries to explore, with academic earnestness, complex questions about how civilizations speak to each other across time and space through "cultural objects" (as the museum handout puts it) and how museums participate in the creation and dissemination of meaning.
At last year's gathering, the RSPB's current chairman, Ian Darling, was able to applaud a record membership of more than 1 million, each paying £3 a month to help preserve Britain's bird life – or, as the handout puts it, anything that "hops, crawls or flutters in your garden".
In a one-time kicker to the waning forces of U.S. asset and debt bubbles, a combination of cheap money, lax monetary policy and huge federal tax handouts have put more costless cash into the hands of American households.
I know you're angry with those big financial institutions that took the government's handouts and put it in their coffers.
First it was the announcement last week that the Treasury intends to spend £369 million on doing up Buckingham Palace in the middle of a housing crisis, and then – bizarrely, given the outrage over the refurbishment handout – the Palace put out a job advert for a new gardener, offering a salary that works out at less than the London Living Wage.
We have put handouts and pictures on a CD-ROM that is mailed to each student the first week of class.
