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...setting the mood than heating the house, prepared for winter by stocking 20% more inventory in its warehouses than the firm thought it would need. With weather affecting its average sales volume up to 15%, Duraflame couldn't afford to miss out on a cold snap. But unseasonably mild weather in one part of the country could mean inventory would sit useless for weeks. At the time, Duraflame executives made short-term decisions based on a daily USA Today weather map plastered to an office wall...
Sheer boredom with the slabs of Modernism and disenchantment with the mild remedies of Postmodernism are other reasons that something very different is happening. Exploded boxes appeal right away to that place in the brain that hates not just Modernism but also modernity, the part that cheers when some atrocious housing project gets brought down with dynamite. As it happens, Modernism itself flourished in a world that had been blown away by the physical and psychic clearance project of World War II. Postwar corporations wanted triumphant office towers that owed nothing to the rubble of the old world...
...special occasions. For our days out on the rifle range, reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles - then clear skies again just in time for our arrival. And since the local brass was on hand, of course the nights were mild and the days clear from that moment on. The coldest night of the year, down in the low teens? Our very first night in the woods, back in December. Yet now, for our last and most public act as Basic Trainees, the Big Drill Sergeant in the Sky was hiding...
...tactical deficiencies.) But it's also true that Bradley really did (and still does) want to run a different kind of campaign. Aside from those two lapses, he has run his race the way he said he would--staying positive, pointing out problems and offering "bold" solutions in a mild and philosophical way that resonates deeply with a vocal minority of Democrats...
...Just as it's O.K. for women to call themselves girls, gays can talk about "gaydar," the scanning device that divides the world by sexual orientation on the basis of superficial characteristics. Straights and straight presidential candidates are generally more circumspect. But McCain's remarks constituted at most a mild distraction, barely diverting him from his last-ditch effort to shame Governor George W. Bush into a fair fight in New York by helping McCain get on the ballot there. Gay political leaders didn't make an issue of it. Kevin Ivers, press spokesman for the gay Log Cabin Republicans...