Word: latter
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...even purchase condom accessories like the $28 Condo-M, a plastic-and-aluminum bedside container. (Think Pez dispenser for grownups.) Even the presidential campaign spawned Barack Obama- and John McCain-themed condoms with corresponding slogans ("Who says experience is necessary?" for the former; "Old, but not expired" for the latter). (Read about permanent birth control...
Muji develops products in two distinct ways: from scratch or with the intent to improve on an existing one. That latter approach shows up in Muji's "undesign" redesign of chairs and tables by the German brand Thonet. An "anonymous" brand is particularly challenged in health and beauty, a category with products that people generally like to have fun with and buy to pamper themselves, says category manager Madoka Nagamoto...
...words deemed too offensive for the official Scrabble dictionary. The list of words ranged from ethnic slurs to playground phrases like "turd," "fart" and "fatso." Hasbro eventually compromised and published two officially sanctioned dictionaries - one for "recreational and school play" and the other for official tournaments and clubs; the latter contains a total of 120,302 words, dirty ones included...
...playing is not the capital-D Disco of wedding receptions and campaign theme songs. It’s a dance music made in the early 70s by all-embracing, forward-thinking people, and it’s been overshadowed by the more garish, less nuanced music of the latter part of that decade. Genre, race, class, and sexual orientation had no bearing on what direction these original innovators would take, precisely because they represented the most marginalized of minorities in America. The greatest ambassador of this brand of disco, at least in my mind, is a now little known producer...
...people to informally get together and to celebrate the holiday season together.” In addition to providing gingerbread cookies, shortcake, candy canes, and food associated with the traditions of each faith, the event educated the attendees with poster presentations that described the tenets of each faith. The Latter Day Saints Student Association welcomed visitors with home-baked cookies and brownies and also provided copies of The Book of Mormon in several languages. The Harvard College Buddhist Community served rice pudding—said to have been fed to Siddhartha Gautama while fasting in order to reach enlightenment, according...