Word: cardboard
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...that if the company hires friends and relatives, everyone will be more likely to get along. Once or twice a year, store managers and assistants are taken to corporate retreats, where they spend a good deal of their time doing silly activities like making small boats out of cardboard, tape and empty milk cartons. Salesmen are encouraged to tune TVs in their stores to sports events, set up putting greens, throw around Nerf footballs and take in doughnuts or pizza for themselves and the customers...
...bombed, its door cascading with a mountain of debris made up of burned and broken empty vials. The intact other building was packed to the rafters with boxes full of glassware and beakers. Pigeons roost in the ceiling, their droppings and feathers--some of it inches thick--caking the cardboard towers. Nothing appears to have been moved in a long time. U.S. intelligence officials declined to tell TIME about Washington's postwar assessment of the site...
Joined by six Nobel Laureates, they also witnessed the authors of an academic paper entitled “Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans” accept a prize consisting of a plastic box mounted on a cardboard sheet as part of the 13th annual Ig Nobel awards...
...ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin’s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
Surely this isn't what usually happens when you run off with the electrician: You are at a hotel bar with your hunky new husband, a Cosmopolitan on the rocks, a cigarette and a news photographer. And--oh, yes--you're in a cardboard...