Word: boxful
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...ballots, but right now the Anglo-Indian melodrama Slumdog Millionaire is the strong favorite to win the Oscars for Best Picture, Directing and Adapted Screenplay. It has already snagged top prizes from the producers', directors', writers' and actors' guilds. It's also earned nearly $80 million at the domestic box office--far more than the combined take of three of its Best Picture rivals, The Reader, Frost/Nixon and Milk. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which absent Slumdog might have been the film to beat, has grossed more than $120 million.) Though set in Mumbai, Slumdog has become...
...during this downturn," says Kathy Deane, the president of Tobe, a retail consultancy. For example, as part of its "We Love You" promotion, Bloomingdale's will give you a free hippie scarf if you spend $100 at one of its stores. If you spend $25 or more on a box of Godiva chocolates, you could win a trip to the company's Chocolate Decadence suite - where the chairs, walls and candles are all made out of chocolate - at a New York City hotel...
...second period, the Crimson picked up the tempo as both teams’ frustration with the score began to show. But as the pace increased, so too did the amount of penalties against Harvard. With only nine shots on goal, Harvard saw five of its players hit the penalty box as the Eagles took 14 shots against Kessler, the most of any period for Boston College.“We put the ball back in BC’s court for a while in the second period, and we staved off a ton of pressure, killed...
...ultimate downfall was the power play. Yale converted on four of its six chances despite converting just 19.1 percent of power plays on the season. Harvard could not convert on its three man-advantage attempts.“The biggest thing for us is just staying out of the box,” junior Doug Rogers said. “Not our best game on the penalty kill, but sometimes it’s just the luck you get.”The Bulldogs opened the scoring a little more than eight minutes into the game. After an interference call...
...recall. “I know that we stocked Clif bars, but frankly, I don’t know if we even had the implicated flavors,” she said. Later on, Martin confirmed that Lamont had indeed offered the tainted bars, and said that the box had probably been mixed up in the store room. She said that multiple recalled CLIF bars had been sold to students, but that the rest of the stock had been thrown away. “In theory they had all been removed,” she said, calling the Lamont Library instance...