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Searcher's voice: nag, nag, nag.

Publication: Searcher
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Searcher's voice: nag, nag, nag.(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Nightmares of a threatening future loom over all our heads. Reductions in staff and funding affect extant operations, making it necessary to do more just to do less. Long-standing institutions, which have always seemed eternal and now seem needed more than ever, stagger under threats to their very survival. Heck, the U.S. Postal Service has gone to Congress for aid. It's cutting delivery service from 6 to 5 days and wrestling with issues of health insurance coverage for its retired employees, while at the same time offering early retirement to 150,000 workers. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" may stand chiseled in stone at the New York City post office on 8th Avenue, but a lousy economy may sure slow those couriers down as more than nighttime spreads the gloom.

And yet, in the midst of all this turmoil, I have the unholy gall to start nitpicking, to nag my beleaguered readers over teensy mistakes, minor...

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