Word: checklists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though this checklist almost certainly inspires thoughts of the 121st edition of The Game, there’s another team out there that will be battling the Bulldogs this weekend as well...
...half a million e-mails to incoming freshman and then showed up on a couple of dozen college campuses to hand out mock financial-aid forms with an invitation to cut the high cost of college by buying at Ikea. Bed Bath & Beyond offers college-bound shoppers a handy checklist that reminds students not to forget, among other things, the toaster oven, popcorn maker, snack table, blender and, that campus sine qua non, the George Foreman grill. Meal plans be damned. And after a few early attempts, gift registries for the college-bound caught on this year too. Wal-Mart...
...websites that will ping you with reminders to count carbs or keep working on your novel manageyourmuse.com) In fact, the only real obstacle to achieving your summer goals is that setting them makes this season feel too much like the rest of the year, a march down the checklist on schedule when all we really want to do is sleep later and savor the slack built into each...
This is a perfectly amiable book but never even slightly a surprising one. Mayle wears smooth the cliches about the French--how their hauteur can be impeccable and their plumbing imponderable, how they drive too fast and have those jaunty bosoms. You imagine Mayle making his checklist of the bits of Provencal color to be sprinkled around the story. Old men playing boules in the village square. Check. Fragrant disks of goat cheese wrapped in chestnut leaves. Check. Funny Englishman mangling the French tongue. Check. You have to admire his tireless attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with...
...official. "Where did they go after that? How did the network expand? What were they plotting then? Where did they live? Who did they live with?" But the adrenaline really gets pumping after an attack like the one in Madrid. The Counterterrorist Center will immediately run through a checklist of questions: What's the first take from the local intelligence service? What kind of evidence was found? Did anyone get a license plate? Was there any known operational terrorist cell there before? Are there satellite intercepts of telephone conversations? If the local authorities arrested someone, is that person known...