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The new Tammany was wrapped in a cloth of sanctimony. It professed to represent the interests of the poor. Protected in part by civil service and union power, it was immune to elections, and rather than being subject to scrutiny by the press it was mostly treated as a sacred cow.

Then one day in 1992 out of the clear blue I got a call from a woman who wanted me to speak with her and her husband about our foundation. I took them to lunch at Wheeler's and explained what we were trying to do. I wrapped it up by asking them what they had in mind dollar-wise.

That's racin. It's nothing whining and crying can do anything about. We actually got to the front on a track that I honestly didn't think I'd be able to pass anybody on. I kind of surprised myself. I'm sorry for all of my guys and everything. The NORA championship, we're pretty happy about that. We still got that wrapped up so that's something to smile about. Hopefully, we'll go to the Race of Champions next weekend and see if we can get a top run up there.

It's so much a part of the sports lore that if the media quit showing it, it might have a minimal effect - but it's pretty much wrapped up in mainstream sport now.

That is very good progress and a good sign that this whole thing will be wrapped up in the near future.

It's important, but it's not that important. If he has it wrapped up, so be it. Anybody would rather have player of the year than the money title.

It's indescribable. I can't really put into words how I feel. I am nervous all the time ... excited, scared, anxious, all these feelings all wrapped into one.

I still believe many will not show up at the caucuses because they figure Bush has it all wrapped up.

They are keeping the source code, (which) means that their product becomes wrapped in it and encapsulated, and in a sense (this is) going against the ideals and benefits of what made Linux useful to them in the first place.

They came in here and absolutely lit it up. Had we won that game, we probably would have the league title wrapped up. Now we have to take care of business and see what happens (this week).

They want to own everything. They have successfully wrapped up every great name athlete. They have made a concentrated effort to do that, cost be damned.

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

They were wrapped and tagged and located in the chapel. For whatever the reasons, the people had died for medical reasons. They were sick people kept in the hospital and not neglected.

They just looked like black pipes to me. I think that they said they were wrapped in tape.

The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or be wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army, I would want to go where my men went, and I'd want to do what they did. I would not want to be kept back for being precious, or whatever - that's the last thing I would want.

The corruption at the UN didn't begin with the Oil for Food scandal and it certainly doesn't end there. The United Nations is nothing more than bureaucracy piled atop waste, wrapped in fraud, covered with abuse -- all of it funded by American taxpayers who foot 22 percent of UN dues -- more than any other nation. We also pour billions of dollars more into the coffers of its related agencies.

I'm expecting to stay on schedule, ... The mayor and I are going to meet Thursday to get this wrapped up so we can get back on schedule. We might end up being possibly two weeks off. Compared to the way it was last year, I'm ecstatic.

I made sure my tenure did not end until Hong Kong Disneyland opened and several other things were wrapped up. I'm so pleased with the way it has all come out.

In high school you get so wrapped up in everything that you end up miserable. It's so much more enjoyable than prom.

In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

I know we wrapped up the No. 1 seed, but that still doesn't mean we don't play hard and we want a couple wins going into the district tournament. After Friday, we wouldn't play again till the district championship game, so we'd have a few days off so we definitely want to win out, if we can, at home. I mean, they're going to be two tough games back-to-back.

I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.

I'm wrapped to be driving with DJR, it's a rare opportunity and I'm certainly going to give my all and make the most of it.

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

Interesting, ... I can see you're the kind of woman who gets all wrapped up in her work.

I remember the first show Riley was involved in. She was showing one of my dogs. The dog became very nervous and agitated before the competition. Riley had read in a book that if you wrapped a dog and cradled him, he'll relax. Riley took a ribbon out of her hair, wrapped the pup in it, and cradled him a little. The dog calmed down instantly.

I look at who we're playing as a basketball team and don?t get wrapped up in what the perception is about their team. They're a very, very good basketball team that has beaten Connecticut, Michigan State, North Carolina.

I really think it is a sin to have a collection sitting in boxes that nobody ever sees. These works were made for display, for human communication. To be sitting wrapped up neatly for me to make a profit on them is wrong.

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.

I played average. He wrapped some presents for me and handed over the first set and I didn't have my best stuff, but I got through and there's something to be said for that.

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.

But having that shift from the city being in control to the state taking control, a whole bunch of new players came into play. We've made a lot of progress and I anticipate things getting wrapped up in mid-August.

You know, people want someone to tell them the answer, ... They want a friend, or a teacher, or a parent - but above all I guess they just want to know. And the truth is you can't tell them, and that's a hard thing to deal with. And it's easy to get wrapped up in the idea that this person knows - that he will tell me what I need to know, what I need to live - because he means a lot to me.

This is all orchestrated for Kyle, this playbook, this offense, because he has to be successful. We have every confidence he can be, not only with the people we brought in, but with the structure we've wrapped around him.

Allegheny County has not signed a contract. We're hoping to get things wrapped up relatively soon.

The housing situation will remain the same until this investigation is wrapped up, which could be in a few days.

And I told myself I was in a trap from which I wanted to escape! To escape where, do you, Man know where you want to go to break from tis inferno of your own existence? No, I do not know because I am blind and my Knowledge is in face an Illusion of Life wrapped in non-Knowledge, which is the Absolute Truth as unknown to me as the non-Knowledge.

The community has wrapped its arms around this event and been so supportive. That's why we've been able to offer so much.

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

The meeting wrapped up with the agreement of the group that all the conservation practices that we had last year be offered again for the 2006 program.

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e

You know that Pepperidge Farm bread, that stuff is fancy. That stuff is wrapped twice. You open it, and then still ain't open. That's why I don't buy it, I don't need another step between me and toast.