Word: fetchingly
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...snapped up his A623 in an online auction for just under $150 - underscoring the fact that early communist-era Chinese mechanical watches are within the financial reach of almost anyone. "Even many rare models can still be found for [around] $75," Chan says. To be sure, some pieces occasionally fetch impressive sums (a 1955 Shanghai Watch sold at auction for over $15,700 in 1996), but for the moment no one is talking about the investment value - only the pleasure of getting your hands on a quaint piece of revolutionary history...
...some cases, there may be a commercial opportunity in reversing the used-clothing flow: Diriamba is awash in victorious Patriots T-shirts that should fetch a handsome profit in the Boston black market...
...millimeters, and then apply a new bandage. The process is excruciating, as a worm can take up to two weeks to be completely pulled out, and patients with an emerged worm are often in too much pain to walk. Being unable to walk means being unable to farm, fetch water, or perform other daily chores, meaning the disease also has a debilitating effect on the local economy...
...gradually seeing the results of their work. An increasing number of people pay attention to whether their drinking water has been filtered, and rather than wading into Wantugu's dam and potentially re-contaminating the water, some women stand on stones at the water's edge as they fetch. At one point the most endemic community in Ghana, Wantugu has experienced a large reduction in Guinea worm cases recently, from 414 cases in 2006 to 193 cases in 2007. Says Naporow: "Last year at this time we would do case searches and still find hanging worms, everywhere...
...load carefully, instead of dumping piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules, and don’t factor in a two-hour wash-and-dry endeavor every week. When it’s a question of wearing that same pair of dirty underwear for the third...