Word: box
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...back of my mind, the flag wasn’t for interference. Illegal block in the back, they called—against Harvard.As the other writers and I tried to understand the call, we could see Murphy livid on the field and the coaches in the coaching box next to us distressed. Were we going to see a repeat of two years ago where the atrocious officiating cost Harvard the game?Let me qualify this with the fact that I don’t by any stretch of the imagination believe that the Crimson played well before the break. Giving...
...IceScapes is fairly informal,” said Ron, the avuncular owner who bore an uncanny resemblance to a life-sized teddy bear, “We let you play whatever music you like.” As he said this, Ron gestured to a boom box by the freezers and noted that he was a Jurassic 5 fan; as I surveyed the large central room I even recognized some friends from high school among the four or five employees—in fact, nearly everyone who worked there was 16 or under. By the time...
...want to sacrifice quality." Aldi arrived in the U.S. in 1976, hoping to replicate a business model that proved successful in Europe. With U.S. food inflation then in the double digits, the company's timing couldn't have been better. Aldi was one of the first so-called box or no-frills stores, grocers that featured rock-bottom pricing by offering a limited inventory and squeezing out all unnecessary costs, from coupons to butcher shops to fancy displays...
...size, Aldi executives say they can substantially undercut conventional retailers on 90% of the products the store sells. Nor do customers have to make any trade-offs in buying private labels. Consider the sleek, dark 16.9-oz. bottle of Ariel Extra Virgin Olive Oil ($4.29). Or the 13-oz. box of Fruit Rice cereal ($1.69). "You wouldn't be embarrassed to have that on your counter," says Bill Bishop, a retail consultant...
...ancient city of 170,000 Palestinians is a tinder box of religious passions. It is the site of the Patriarchs' Cave, revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians as the tomb of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. And nearly 700 Jewish settlers are squatting near the tomb, protected by hundreds more Israeli soldiers whose security barriers and checkpoints have paralyzed the heart of this Palestinian city. The effect of the settler presence, with its attendant security measures, has been to radicalize the city's Palestinian population...