Word: butt
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...through sight (with alluring displays) and smell (say, by piping the odor of fresh coffee throughout a store), few have focused on the smart use of sound, says retail psychologist Tim Denison of the British Retail Think Tank. But that's changing. U.S. firm Muzak used to be the butt of jokes for its bland elevator music, but it now supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels around the world - including Gap, McDonald's and Burger King - with songs tailored to reflect their identity. "What we're trying to capture is a brand's essence," says Bob Finigan, Muzak...
...went the letter that Sprint sent to its Biggest Pain in the Butt customers, thus eliminating 1,000 mobile users who take up so much time complaining that they're not worth keeping. The actual wording might have been more diplomatic, but you get the idea...
...baby movies. Movies with Matthew Perry in them. Investing in Planet Hollywood. Giving his kids odd names. Endorsing George Bush. People just don't abandon Bruce Willis. Despite the cuffed Levi's 501 blues he stills wears, he somehow stays with the times--Pulp Fiction, Friends, the Beavis and Butt-head movie, Sin City. It's because he never put himself on a different level from us. "Could you ever picture yourself hanging out with Sylvester Stallone? Could you picture hanging out with Arnold Schwarzenegger? No," says Smith. "But you could with Bruce Willis. He acts like your friends...
...basic evidence that Oswald killed Kennedy been shaken. Fragments of the bullets that hit Kennedy were matched with the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Depository. Oswald's fingerprints were on the rifle barrel. Fibers from the clothes he wore when arrested were caught on the rifle butt. That morning he had brought a long, thin package to work from the house in Irving where he spent weekends with Marina. He explained to the co-worker who gave him a ride that it contained curtain rods for his Dallas apartment, even though his flat had a full...
...Losing down there pretty handily was a kick in the butt and a wakeup call that forced us to rethink our approach and everything we’re about,” captain Charles Altchek said. “When it was over, we all got together and really buckled down as a team knowing full well that if we lost to Yale the next weekend, or even if we tied, it was probably the end of our Ivy League title hopes...