Word: collectable
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...Many hotels will note a returning guest's favorite pillow or drink, but, with your permission, Langham Place will also collect your most frequently dialed numbers and load them onto the touchscreen phone in your room, so that home or head office need only be a fingertip away. Staff can also program the device to display stock quotes based on your own portfolio, as well as news and weather bulletins from your hometown. The Web-enabled phones can even be pre-tuned to your favorite online radio stations. Best of all, if you forward snapshots of your loved ones prior...
...without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur to her that something was wrong. "We were our own little business," says Jackson. "We used to joke that all you had to do with a federal tax ID number was to think up a name, and then you could collect as much money as you wanted." Jackson also recalls seeing one of the people who worked in Gerber's office randomly downsizing pay slips for Marrogi. "I actually saw her change the codes on the billing," says Jackson. "She said he was money hungry and didn't need that much...
...We’re going after him. Before that, who was your greatest enemy? The Soviet Union. You guys owe us.” Allison added that if he were in the Bush Administration, he would tell Iran that the time had come for America “to collect.” But Steve Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they have done enough to create an alliance between the two countries. “We supported you after 9/11, especially against the Taliban,” said Miller, speaking...
...under his toenails. Ted and Jan--who has lovely bright blue eyes perpetually fixed in a startled expression--have operated Windflower for eight years with their sons Nathaniel, 14, and Jacob, 11. On the day I visited last summer, I watched a barefoot Nathaniel walk to the henhouse to collect eggs in an old white bucket, as he did every day. I had been eating those eggs most days--that's how I had replaced cereal. Seeing Nate carry that bucket into the smelly humidity of the chicken coop, I realized I had never before felt so connected...
...SELECT THINGS FOR YOUR PERSONAL COLLECTION? Everybody has to set some guidelines in order to limit what you collect. I'm drawn to objects with humor and with innovation...