Word: funnel
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...through is another question. Executives try to explain, but the disconnect is so obvious that the Starbucks drive-through is lately being reinvented. Some changes boost efficiency (an order-confirmation screen reduces errors), but plenty of the redesign is aesthetic. Neatly landscaped hedges and big drawings of coffee pots funnel you through a chute that takes you round to the pickup window, which is broad and deep and designed to visually draw you into the store...
...Webb in June, and that 14:1 fundraising advantage had leapt to 16:1. By July - before Macacagate or ham sandwiches had entered the picture - that lead had closed to around 10. By the end of August, some polls showed Webb ahead. Allen's last desperate move was to funnel some steamy sex scenes cribbed from Webb's novels to Matt Drudge; their content inflamed cultural conservatives. The rest of the state shrugged. At least it could finally be determined that George Allen read books...
...start drinking.” 2) “You have to lose your virginity before you register for classes; here, let me help you with that.” 3) “Did you know that you can make the stairs in Pennypacker into a giant beer funnel?” 4) “Mower is famous for dormcest orgies. It’s also famous for letting its PAFs watch the action.” 5) “It’s not that all the cool kids drink. It’s that EVERYONE...
...continue to react reflexively to each new scheme, regardless of the probability of the threat and the feasibility of preventing it? Or do we have an honest discussion about risk and the costs of safety? After the discovery of the liquid-bomb plot, does it make sense to funnel billions more dollars into new machines that can detect liquid explosives, even though the past three sizable attacks pulled off by Islamic terrorists in major metropolises have been on trains in Madrid, London and Bombay? Banning cologne from planes and testing bottles of baby formula for explosives may make us feel...
...rules but his own. "The other guys are allegedly making up their minds," Biden told TIME last week." I've been around too long to be coy. My objective is to run." He'll spend 15 days in August in Iowa, going to the state fair (he prefers funnel cakes to fried Twinkies), speaking to the trial lawyers association there and campaigning for gubernatorial candidate Chet Culver and other Democrats on the ticket. And when he's not in Iowa, he'll still be running for President. Biden's schedule in August includes attending fundraisers around the country...