Word: cardboard
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...could tell they were just poor peasants in new clothes: They were given away by their callused hands, dirt under their fingernails and the identical creases on their straight-out-of-the-box shirts - the quiet-spoken apple grower named Liang Yumin still had a piece of cardboard tucked under his collar...
...that it is not the body that should be operating them. As the elected student government, the UC is in a unique position to facilitate—but not directly provide—a variety of campus-wide student services. Students appreciate having shuttles to the airport, inexpensive cardboard boxes for move-out, and $1 movie nights—all of which the UC used to provide. The UC is a single, central body with both the authority and financial means to coordinate these endeavors, and so the responsibility to do so falls on it. The UC?...
...Horvath, 35, knew since childhood that they wanted to make toys. Growing up in Seoul, Kim's friends played with Barbie houses while she fashioned dollhouses out of cardboard and clay. On the other side of the world, in the U.S., Horvath's mother designed toys for Mattel. "She would bring home her beautiful unique prototypes, but when I saw them in the toy store, they looked the same as everything else," he recalls. "I always wanted to make toys, but I knew I never wanted to work for a toy company...
...custom-made suit twice that, but a number of High Street men's clothiers?including Brooks Brothers, Joseph A. Bank and Thomas Pink?have started to turn out dress shirts made to measure for about $200 a pop?more than the ones already pinned to cardboard and wrapped in plastic but not that much more...
...regulatory reform, a deregulated oil industry and agricultural reform--in the U.S. also--if it is to maximize the potential that NAFTA offers. If not, the U.S. can expect an even larger flood of new arrivals, to whom a fence installed by Congress may as well be made of cardboard...