Word: crates
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...made a spectacular decision in 1984 when he moved to a tiny backwater called Shenzhen, is the country's most successful real estate mogul. He heeded Deng Xiaoping's call to explore the virtues of capitalism, starting a trading company that moved everything from copy machines to the odd crate of shellfish. Although private property was still a dirty word in communist China, in 1993 Wang invested in real estate. He had heard of a man named Trump, and he was intrigued. "I didn't know much about management," he says. "But I thought, Western companies already did it well...
...first problems Allard had to solve was what the new Xbox would look like. It's not a trivial question. The old Xbox is large and forbidding, a matte black and poisonous green plastic crate the size of a VCR. Perfect for hard-core gamers, maybe, but if Microsoft wanted to grow its audience, Allard knew the new Xbox had to look kinder and gentler. The goal was a design that was welcoming but not wimpy, that snagged the soccer moms and NASCAR dads and Britney girls--without losing the Halo boys...
...Juicy Green Vase, $50 at cb2.com Crate and Barrel's eclectic new site for home furnishings and accessories, is, believe it or not, made of lacquered wood...
...with 24 hours before election returns were to begin rolling in, there were still technical glitches to be worked out. A filing center for the media was lacking internet access and a special podium designated for Laura Bush, the First Lady, remained packed away in a crate...
...authentic ingredients for our bubble tea, none of those artificial powders they serve at Lollicup,” Song said of her competitors down JFK Street. But Patrick D. Blanchfield ’05, a student who has made it past Crate and Barrel to Dado on a walk from Mather, said he disagrees...