Word: dozen
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Brent Knudsen, 40, might consider such approaches. Recently recruited to run a company called GolfWeb, a golf site on the Internet, he's trying to hire half a dozen programmers and product developers to keep the site ahead of the curve. "We've had instances where people have agreed to come on board, but before they show up they've gone somewhere else," Knudsen says. "It's that hotly competed...
...four bombs were delivered through the U.S. Postal Service and may have been at the U.N. since last week. Monday brought the bombing campaign's first casualties when one device exploded at the Al-Hayat newspaper's London headquarters; two people were injured, one seriously. At least a dozen letter bombs have been mailed to the newspaper's bureaus in Washington, New York, London and Riyadh this month...
...first pavilion is mainly for public entertaining," he says as he picks his way past construction debris down four levels of stairs. Despite the hour, three technicians are working in the ground-floor reception hall, with its view of the Olympic Mountains across Lake Washington, adjusting two dozen 40-in. monitors that will form a flat-screen display covering an entire wall. "When you visit, you'll get an electronic pin encoded with your preferences," he explains. "As you wander toward any room, your favorite pictures will appear along with the music you like or a TV show or movie...
When he arrives there for dinner, owner Thierry Rautureau comes out to hug him and pour champagne. There follows a procession of a dozen courses, from black truffles and pureed celery root in smoked game consomme to venison with obscure types of mushrooms, each with different vintage wines. (The bill for two comes to $390, and picking it up assuages my discomfort that Gates had insisted on putting the previous evening's $37 tab at the Indian restaurant on his MasterCard...
...they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical...