Word: cardboard
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Theme: Movies, particularly Lord of the Rings. A cardboard cutout of Orlando Bloom [Legolas of Lord of the Rings] welcomes visitors. Cinematic posters, including those of James Bond and Star Wars, cover the walls...
...about the sparse clarity of his writing--and wonder why he is so much more compelling on the page than in person. Even now, after his victory in Iowa and surge in New Hampshire, the Senator manages to entangle himself regularly in grandiloquent and impenetrable rhetoric. There is a cardboard pomposity to it that drives his staff, the press corps--and a fair number of regular human beings--nuts. The people of Iowa had months to study Kerry, weed through his oratory, and finally came to the conclusion that the Senator has the knowledge in both foreign and domestic policy...
Many of the victims waited in cardboard boxes or tents on the street for medical treatment...
...Bam’s infrastructure was leveled, the relief team had to cope with very limited resources. The team performed surgeries with bottled water and built shelves out of cardboard boxes held by duct tape...
...seasonal (sales spike during back-to-school and tax times), Nicolin explains, "it's very difficult to be based in China. It means big commitments. You cannot respond to fluctuations." And Esselte has not ignored the need to innovate--even in the market for what Nicolin jokingly calls "bent cardboard." Esselte is aggressively seeking patents on new products, and it has done five times as much market research this year as in the past five years combined. "That's how you avoid being marginalized," Nicolin says...