Word: item
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...start rounding to the nearest nickel. Yet rounding is in force on military bases and in some foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could price a cup of coffee at 98[cents] and round up. But two cups would cost $1.96, which means rounding down. And what makes you think retailers don't already...
...Although the interview may make the debut issue of Ms. Brown?s new venture the hottest item on this week?s newsstands, it?s not entirely clear that it?ll bounce her clear of New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in what?s shaping up to be a closely-contested Senate race. "Her enemies like to cast her as cold, calculating and ambitious, and sharing her own pain in this interview helps to humanize her," says McAllister. "But that won?t necessarily change anyone?s mind about whether or not they want her representing them in the Senate." And -- wouldn...
...each item on the menu, a complete nutritional analysis including calorie, fat, protein and carbohydrate content is provided...
...businessmen, straight or crooked, in any era have ridden that dream harder or farther than Frankel. By the time police and fire fighters responded to an alarm at his arcadian Greenwich, Conn., mansion last month to discover smoldering file cabinets full of incinerating and incriminating documents--item one on his to-do list: launder money--Frankel had constructed a financial whiz kid's Xanadu, complete with 80 trading terminals, satellite dishes, a fleet of imported cars and a bevy of female retainers he had attracted by answering personal ads and trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence...
...Kesselring is not at liberty to reveal the dungeon from which he procured the Mytheral breastplate. And the identity of the monsters he and his party spent 11 hours slaying in order to win the item is likewise proprietary. But he will talk about the auction that his character, a gnome named Razor, held that night in Mithaniel Marr. Roughly 200 players showed up, and the armor sold for 4,000 platinum pieces. But then, turning a socially responsible profit is Razor's forte. "It's how I add value to the economy," he says, "and to the game itself...