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...sole of the shoe. The colors soon moved from that simple, team-oriented black and red to purple and green to some strange rainbow-flavored peace ensemble. The shoe--and the player--distanced itself from the team, leaving them behind to flounder in the wake of marketing run amok...
...course, a cynic might dismiss the whole lot as blueprints for futuristic or retro college dormitory facilities across the nation: the pieces almost all resemble architectural scale models, with the grand, misguided feel of an architect's imagination gone amok Furthermore, the room used to exhibit the pieces seems inexplicably gloomy at times and is somewhat inconve niently catalogued...
...conventions were fun spectacles of patriotism run amok, and the subsequent traveling of the candidates wooing working women rallied their respective troops. But the process makes the U.S. citizen the big loser, for his or her vote is effectively nullified by the lack of a decent choice in the presidential race...
...were stunned by David B. Lat's vicious blindsiding of VideoPros (Feb. 15, "Rudeness Runs Amok"). Aside from the fact that the piece is riddled with potentially libelous innuendo and free-wheeling "facts," the opinions are not enlightening or newsworthy, and merely reflect one person's vendetta that grew from a temper tantrum...
Landes again cited the Medical Area TotalEnergy Plant (MATEP) as an example of a centraladministration decision run amok. He said MATEPhas cost FAS $500 million...