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...have no qualms about being a little rude with your cookies. My blocking group would attest that I am a nice enough guy, but taking a walnut crescent is a serious offense. Sure, the chocolate ones were for them (it must be a genetic defect, I know, but not everyone likes the dark stuff), but a misplaced finger on a raspberry square would be grounds for a hearing with the Ad Board in my book. And not a meeting over lunch either...
...runs the risk of overrunning its environment. Like animals who graze their savannas to stubble and humans who fill their cities to bursting, ads may simply exhaust the very resource that keeps them alive. That resource, in this case, is the goodwill of consumers. As any endangered animal can attest, what follows is extinction. For the dodo, that's a tragedy. For the banana sticker, it would be another thing entirely...
...established foreign sales subsidiaries on the islands. That's one company for every 28 residents. You'd never know it. There are no FSC office towers. Nor are there FSC listings in the telephone book. The only clue to their existence is found in government offices, where bulging files attest to the paperwork they generate...
Hopkins was apostrophizing nature in all its ceaseless variety, and that is what Pollock seems to have been doing too. "I want to be nature," he declared, and the paintings attest to that. These tiny incidents pullulating in a large field may evoke the experience of looking into a dense thicket close up, or the wider one of staring at the Milky Way, but in either case Pollock's imagination seems organically bound to the natural world without actually depicting it. The contrast between the great size of the canvases (One is more than 17 ft. across) and the intricacy...
Murray describes the first step in hiring someone as "eliminating most of the first group of resumes and cover letters, three fourths of which all look alike. If a colleague refers someone to you, and can attest to their suitability, that it's worth their time to talk to you, then they can certainly be of help. A contact will never get you the job, but a contact can help you get an interview. After that...