Word: combo
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...There are lower-priced machines but not many with this kind of high performance. Hewlett-Packard's best value includes a superfast 1.3-GHz AMD Athlon chip, Polk Audio speakers and a built-in CD burner. Better still, through Jan. 5, a $150 rebate on the PC-and-monitor combo pushes the system price down to a very merry $900. www.hpshopping.com...
However, although it forged a $150 million dollar alliance with Coca-Cola, the movie lacks a fast food tie-in. According to Warner Brother’s domestic marketing chief Brad Ball, “Packaging [Harry Potter] with a meal combo would have taken away from her [J. K. Rowling’s] philosophy...
...eyes turned to the No. 1 match between Yale’s Steve Berke and Dustin West and the Crimson combo of junior Oli Choo and freshman Jonathan Chu. Choo-Chu were losing 7-3, but had managed to save a match point and broke the Eli’s serve. But the Harvard duo, after going up 40-love, gave up five straight points on Chu’s serve and lost the match...
...back into the merriment of stupid human tricks or cynical jokes about the Commander-in-Chief when his show went on-air again, I can’t justify spending time reading about the right way to flirt with a crush or why the red and pink two-piece combo is so last season. The alternating accounts of devastation and heroism that are a constant part of most conversations and news clips have made whimsical decisions and activities harder to enjoy. And yes, I find that some amount of solemnity, or at least an awareness of the larger, oftentimes troubling...
With the euphoniously named diet-drug combo fen/phen all the rage in the mid-1990s, victory finally seemed near in the war on fat. Selling by the millions, the little pills appeared to melt away pounds without maddening diets, demanding exercise or nasty side effects. But as investigative reporter Alicia Mundy reminds us in her absorbing postmortem, Dispensing with the Truth (St. Martin's Press; 402 pages; $24.95), what began as a panacea for intractable obesity--and a bonanza for the pillmakers--quickly turned into a public health disaster...