Word: chunking
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...When your career’s winding down and you know you’ve only got a few games left, it brings out the best in you,” Reese added. Senior Night festivities followed the final regular-season horn, and a sizeable chunk of the crowd remained to watch Reese, Tobe, and classmates Kevin Du, Ryan Maki, Brendan Byrne, and Steve Mandes celebrate with their families on the ice. The Cornell game is traditionally the Bright Hockey Center’s rowdiest of the season, and players rarely need extra motivation before facing...
...pair of brown shoes at a funky outlet selling studded boots and fluffy handbags that's playing earsplitting Gwen Stefani tunes. Wang spends nearly every yuan she earns as a real estate agent on shopping excursions, dinners and drinking sessions with friends. That's no small chunk of change. Since her first job in a coffee shop eight years ago, Wang's annual income has vaulted more than 1,500%, to $7,500. "Five years ago, I'd be happy if I had a little money to buy a small snack on the street. I was yearning...
...attracted so much interest. The U.S. Navy and Army are investigating diamond's usefulness both as a next-generation power-grid switch and as a wear-resistant coating for military equipment. Gemesis, a Sarasota, Fla., company that has been selling man-made gemstones for four years, sets aside a chunk of its R&D budget for the electronics industry. Even DeBeers, the dominant producer of mined gemstone diamonds, has acknowledged the la- tent power of synthetic diamonds (the preferred industry term). DeBeers has maintained a small business selling diamond for drills, precision cutting tools and even tweeter domes in stereo...
...spend an average of nine hours online at home each week, according to the AXA survey. That's up from seven hours two years ago and is an hour more than adult nonretirees who, granted, are not at home as much. But this is a far bigger chunk of time than is spent online by the same cohort in countries like Japan (three hours a week) and Spain (two hours). "Search is the sleeper," says Tobey Dichter, CEO of Generations on Line, a nonprofit promoting Internet literacy among older Americans. "The idea of being able to discover your own world...
...Bush-Cheney campaign manager, told them. But he said that what matters is how they conduct themselves and that they come back together to work for the nominee. An attendee says Madden told several of his elders who are going to work for McCain, "I may take a chunk out of you. But at least you can say, 'Hey, I taught the guy everything he knows...