Word: fabricate
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...also couldn't see much. Which was good, because my mom wore a backless dress. Every other bride wears bows and bustles and basically a 3-to-1 ratio of fabric-to-woman, but my mom was bent on destroying my theory that this was one of those nursing home-companion marriages. I realized after seeing all that exposed flesh that there was no way Pamela Anderson's kids would grow...
...Internet is weaving itself into the fabric of the economy at a breathtaking pace; on that point the economists were in full agreement. But they stopped short of calling it a revolutionary force, on the order, say, of the development of electricity as a power source for industry in the early 20th century. They did note that the Internet, like electricity, is insinuating itself in ways that make the future unthinkable without it. Says Barry Newman, director of technology, corporate and investment banking at Banc of America Securities: "You're going to see the Internet become a core portion...
Conventional wisdom is that there are some things people just won't buy online, and one of them is a sofa. "You want to sit on it, feel the fabric, see the color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck...
...public that believes commonly in the good of environmentalism--a public that can never share the precise set of experiences that led the naturalist himself to his environmentalist beliefs--through the figure of the representative individual, not self-absorbed but rather allowing the self to absorb into the fabric of the common...
...time has come to lay down our gloves and let the randomization fight rest. We must acknowledge that our worst nightmares have not come true--many of the Houses have retained elements of their old cultures, and the fabric of undergraduate life has not frayed into disarray. Extracurricular groups have picked up much of the slack in the realm of community formation, and while Harvard College is certainly not the same as it was pre-randomization, we cannot honestly contend that it has been measurably harmed...