Word: cluttering
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...want you to want to see what they've got. So they flood theaters and TV stations with previews of coming attractions. Clips from the film are seductively arranged to make salami look like steak, and wrapped in a tag line so memorable it will cut through the competing clutter: "On a bad day, he's the best there is" (the Die Hard film); "The most passionately read love story of our time" (Madison County); and don't forget "Congo -- where you are the endangered species...
John Horn, director of Kroll Associates, largest security-management consulting company: "You can adjust radar around the perimeter of the White House, but you would get a whole lot of clutter, atmospheric stuff, dust clouds...
Instead, Harvard should encourage professors to grade more consistently--not clutter the transcript with new numbers that are more misleading than the grades...
...with only Boston College and Hartwick left as non-conference opponents, and with three of its four remaining Ivy games at home, Harvard could be forgiven for looking past its current clutter to what could conceivably be a Cinderella postseason appearance in a sub-500 campaign...
Thirty-year-old contracts have recently expired at Yosemite, and will soon end at other major parks, giving their managers great leverage in scaling back commercialism. Yosemite Concession Services, the winning bidder for the contract there, has agreed to sweep away much of the clutter of souvenir stores. Slated for demolition is a gimmicky gift shop near the edge of Glacier Point that obstructs the view of Yosemite's waterfalls 3,200 ft. below. Even the merchandise at remaining stores is gradually changing, from kitsch warbonnets and rubber tom-toms to local Native American handicrafts and products reflecting environmental themes...