Word: eaten
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...other words, these guys do the things that you do, or could do. Every time the characters eat, buy something or look around, there's another reference to Banana Republic or Orange Julius, Return of the Jedi or Bonfire of the Vanities; to something that you have eaten, bought, seen or done. Even the title is a reference: Geniuses of Crack is the title of a song by Tsunami which describes people who are experts in irrelevant and obscure topics...
WASHINGTON--Filling in part of an 80 million-year historical gap, fossils found in Utah suggest long-necked dinosaurs may have eaten themselves into oblivion by helping to destroy North American forests. That allowed the rise of shorter, horned dinosaurs that fed on shrubs...
...late at $22 watch the stock's grim slide back down to $14. "It's a sinister game that is played very, very intelligently by the banks and their preferred customers," says Klein. "You talk to these companies right after an IPO, and they feel like they've been eaten by sharks...
...patties on the ceiling and all, or to rip it down in the name of progress and the need for more office space? I had, throughout the planning stages and construction of the Barker Center, favored the preservation of the Union for preservation's sake alone, not having ever eaten in the Union but feeling rather that History is History and should be left as is. All of that feeling went out a shiny, clean window when I entered the new building, but my change in perspective got me thinking...
...another bank, yet another office, or worse still, a fast food restaurant with just as much grease but none of the claustrophobic charm? I don't think so. Let's leave it. It may not have butter patties on the ceilings, but probably almost as many Harvard freshmen have eaten there as they have in the former Union. Besides, I like the smell of greasy fries just about as much as the fragrance of sawdust mixed with fresh paint...