Word: afoot
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...concluded that it needed to be more aggressive in the disposable market. The ad campaign it's planning for Sensor 3 will be its first for a disposable razor in 15 years. Szynal hints at the theme: "We'll give them a disposable worth paying for." There's change afoot at Schick, too. The company, owned by New York-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, makes both reusable and disposable razors, and has seen its market share fall by half over the past five years, according to market research firm Information Resources. But earlier this year, Pfizer sold Schick to battery maker...
...little paper cards taped to the sneeze guard announced entrée names riddled with cedillas: Chicken Français! Tomato Provençal! Harvard University Dining Services rarely affects this level of sophistication when juniors’ parents aren’t in attendance; clearly, something was afoot...
...regularly? The absence of any public acknowledgment of culpability in this particular instance leads me to wonder. Moreover, if even the great Paul Krugman, of the great New York Times, employs marginal citing practices, there seems good reason to fear, as Rutton suggests, that there is a widespread problem afoot in the profession...
...lobby of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...
...member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (S.C.A.), an organization devoted to re-creating the lifestyle of premodern Europe. And in case you're not familiar with the Barony of Nordskogen, most benighted Muggles know it as the greater Minneapolis--St. Paul, Minn., area. Strange and magical things are afoot in this great land of ours--Middle-earth, Middle America, whatever you want to call...