Word: jug
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...hard," Edwards explains. He fishes around his barn's medicine cabinet, pulling out vitamin pills and aspirins the size of a man's thumb. There's a "microbial supplement," to help digestion, and Uddermint, a cream made with peppermint oil for soothing sore teats. At his feet is a jug of aloe-vera juice, which he'll shoot down a cow's throat to help relieve stress. That morning he whipped up a brew of rice water, garlic, salt and beef bouillon to treat a calf with diarrhea. To go organic, he says, "you have to be open-minded. Fear...
Last year Unilever shrank its industry-standard 100-oz. jug of Wisk laundry detergent to 80 oz. Kimberly-Clark nipped the diaper count in its Huggies packages about 18%. Dreyer's and Edy's Grand ice creams no longer come in the familiar half-gallon (64 oz.) tub; the 12% smaller cartons hold only 56 oz. Hewlett-Packard has even downsized a ream of paper: packages of its Everyday Inkjet Paper contain 400 sheets instead of 500. "It's almost like going to buy eggs and finding 11 in the carton," says Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org a consumer-advocacy...
With the Bush White House projecting a $304 billion federal deficit this year, plus annual flows of red ink as far as the eye can see, it's fair to say that Ross Perot's crazy aunt is back. In the 1992 campaign, the folksy, jug-eared Texas zillionaire rode public anxiety over the stagnant economy - specifically the burgeoning national debt he compared to a crazy aunt in the basement no one wanted to mention - to the best third-party showing in a presidential election in 80 years. Budget deficits became such a potent political issue that Bill Clinton...
...watercress soup was dramatically decanted at the table from a small jug into a square bowl (presumably in keeping with the new name) in the center of which sat a small piece of lobster tail. The appearance was stunning, the soup a deep green that would have seemed more at home on a canvas than at a dinner table. That said, it should have been warmer—a frequent problem—and desperately needed more salt. Salt and pepper shakers are not put on the table, a rather affected touch, it seems, and if management is determined...
...kept the new bins’ wastebasket attachments small, about the size of a milk jug, to motivate people to recycle more so they wouldn’t fill up their wastebasket space...