Word: checkout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ideas sounded good, but no sooner had he got them going than the whole system began to buckle under the sheer crush of patients--particularly extremely ill ones, who required so much care that they left doctors unable to help healthier people. To fix that, Darkoh turned to checkout-line models that Wal-Mart helped pioneer, instituting what amounted to an express lane for people in need of just testing or medication and a slow lane for the gravely...
...Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover of April-Agro. If that happens, Demel and his supporters believe, Puerto Rico will lose its best chance of reversing nearly a century of standing in line at someone else's checkout counters. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Harold J. Lidin/San Juan
...having a fascinating conversation with a Middle East expert about the intricacies of Israel's disengagement from Gaza when I noticed the fellow growing impatient. "Enough of this," he said. "What about Hillary?" Welcome to my life. In airports, on checkout lines, at the doctor's office: "What about Hillary?" (Everywhere except in Washington, where everyone "knows" she's running.) I shrug, I try to avoid the question, I say it's too early-and it is. But you want to know too, right? So here it is. I like Senator Clinton. She has a wicked, ironic sense of humor...
...comedic mind comes with a curse: your friends, your family, and most people in the world will never be able to make you laugh? If you’re one of the funniest men alive, does it frustrate you when you shoot off a quip to the grocery-store checkout lady, and it goes over her head...
Rock—world-renowned stand-up comedian, movie star, and recent Academy Awards host—treated the college newspaper writers who were invited to the conference call much as he treated his hypothetical checkout lady. He was polite, but sounded as though he was somewhat reluctantly going through the motions of an everyday transaction...