Word: joint
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...London on Thursday, the third-floor lingerie aisles at department store Selfridges & Co. lured customers in a unique way. "Join Selfridges for a sexy and indulgent Valentine's evening!" said the company's website. The allure: while you shop, the "gorgeous dancers from Stringfellows" - a strip joint - perform, using Carmen Electra's portable home pole-dancing kit. (See 10 things to do in London...
Next door to Talay is Covo (www.covony.com), a massive warehouse of a joint where the wood-burning ovens deliver around a dozen types of pizzas - from prosciutto crudo to Treviso (radicchio, gorgonzola and walnuts) - and the fresh sea bass is marinated in white wine and oregano before being baked whole in a brick oven...
...However, this was not an isolated incident. We witnessed the recidivism of these student “entrepreneurs” in the days leading up to the joint formal of Mather, Winthrop and Currier Houses. Tickets were $15 each and sold out earlier than expected. Again, within a few minutes of the desperate e-mails on the house lists, some students began selling their tickets for as high as $75 or 500 percent of face value. The absurd prices prompted others to make their own mythical sales: “Selling formal ticket—first -born child/OBO...
...groundwork laid by the Special Inspector General in anticipation of fraud: "[The Special Inspector General for TARP] is already working closely with FBI's Washington Field Office on joint projects and has met with representatives of the New York Field Office as well ... [The Special Inspector General for TARP] and the New York State Attorney General's Office are coordinating efforts with respect to TARP recipients' compliance with executive compensation restrictions...
Massachusetts General Hospital received its largest donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs...