Word: crateful
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...India's largest company, Reliance Industries, half a dozen women wearing balaclavas, woolen trousers and bulky jackets work inside a room kept at a constant 3?C, peeling and chopping vegetables, spinning them dry and then heaping them in small plastic packets before placing them in plastic transport crates. At the other end of the 5,600-sq-m warehouse, men unload crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh...
...Mohammad Reza Khodadadi, the tentlike structure hidden among thorn trees on the edge of Calais' beach is a haven - though, he hopes, a temporary one. Squatting on a weathered crate under plastic sheeting, he says: "Welcome. This is my home." If the British government has its way, the young Afghan's home will remain right here - on a patch of scrubland overlooking the English Channel. But Khodadadi has his heart set 34 km across the water in England, where, he says, his brother works in a Birmingham coffee shop and has vowed to find him a job. That his entry...
SEATTLE Comfort is as high a priority as style for local buyers of Crate & Barrel's Blake lounge chair ($799)?they spend most of the year nesting inside...
Enough underwear and socks so that you never have to do laundry? Check. Lacoste polos to “fit in” when you go out at night? Check. Industrial-sized crate of Red Bull? Check. Enough Ramen Noodles to feed a medium-sized village in the third world? Check...
...products were anchored around three cast-iron pieces--a 6-qt. pot, a grill press and a lasagna pan large enough to bathe an infant in. "It was the most successful launch of cast iron I've had in my career," says Marjorie Daugherty, the cookware buyer for Crate & Barrel. "We sold 6,000 pieces in the fall, and it was out for January and February." She also believes "Mario's are the best wooden tools on the market...