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...backyard--the perfect distance for my young brown hound Otto, who is an utter maniac for retrieving stuff. The Slinger is nearly perfect in every respect. It even has what I think of as a "wife feature": it lets my spouse scoop slimy, post-retrieved balls into a built-in wire rack without having to sully her ivory hands...
...best picture quality without manual tweaking, while the Philips made it easy to adjust settings. NEC's MultiSync1530V ($549) looked sharp, but its controls were a little less intuitive. And while the $499 Viewsonic was the sveltest of all (just 5 in. deep) and the only model with built-in speakers, its flimsy stand and tinny sound turned...
...serve on the committee not only ensures a certain number of bodies to make postering runs and the such, but it also gives those first-years a chance to cut their teeth on council business and impress the higher-ups. That is to say, there’s a built-in incentive for these reps to do a good job, as future positions within the council may depend...
...office with errors, and nearly 15% get lost, costing physicians $35,000 to $100,000 in unpaid claims each year. Only about 40% of doctors' claims are transmitted electronically today, and most of those move through a clumsy, relatively archaic electronic data interchange that doesn't have much built-in intelligence. Still, automating claims processing isn't exactly a gold mine. It yields WebMD just pennies...
...Wilkinson preach Jabez on a tape during a long drive. Dobson then featured the book on his immensely influential Focus on the Family radio show. Mark Tauber, a religion-book veteran now at the Beliefnet.com website, notes that Wilkinson's 30 years of preaching Jabez at rallies assures "a built-in audience of a million people who have been saying the prayer"--and wonders whether its sequel, based on a verse from the Gospel of John, will sell as well...