Word: nailing
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...famous television commercial first aired six years ago, poultry tycoon Frank Perdue uses a competitor's frozen chicken to hammer a nail into a board. Perdue's point is simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans...
Little Tree, currently the only Japanese-style salon in the Harvard Square area, offers nail care in addition to hair care. By the end of the summer, the salon hopes to provide comprehensive skin and massage services...
Prices fall in the mid-to-expensive range with hair cuts starting at $30 for men and $35 for women. Perms cost around $85. A natural-nail manicure starts at $15. For $10 more, the customer receives a hand treatment that includes a wrist and arm massage, skin exfoliation and skin conditioning. The salon is also looking into using hot oil and parafin treatments...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls. Besides, you can rent original pictures from the Fogg collection cheap-the only fee is to cover the cost of insurance...
That dream seemed in jeopardy after O'Grady finished high school and failed to gain admission to the Air Force Academy. Determined to fly fighter jets, he set out to nail down every civilian flight certification he could, a strategy that he hoped would enable him to enter the Air Force a notch above the rest. "He was one of the best I've ever had," says Mark Wellsandt, who helped give O'Grady his primary flight training at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and eventually became good friends with the young pilot. "You'd demonstrate a maneuver...