Re: logging giggles

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1993 19:19

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samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>I was reading in Computer Graphics World, today about a system used
>to create artificial landscapes for the loggging industry.. and it leads 
>in with such a WONDERFUL sentence.  (caps mine).
>
>  " In this era of environmental conciousness, nearly all activities that
>    impact nature in any manner are subject to increasingly STRINGENT 
>    government OVERSIGHT;" .... 
>
>I wonder what kind of oversight they're talking about, eh?

Take your pick from the following two (contradictory) definitions!  :-)

$ telnet chem.ucsd.edu. 
 
Accel UNIX (chem.ucsd.edu) 
  
 login: webster 
Word: oversight 
over-sight \'oE-ver-,suEt\ n 
(14c) 
1: watchful and responsible care 
2: an inadvertent omission or error  
 
Word:

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From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: logging giggles
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