Word: nails
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...lost five straight non-league games dating back to the 2003 season. The last win was a 21-19 nail-biter over visiting Bucknell. Two years later, Cornell should end the streak as the Bison limp into Schoellkopf Field after dropping two straight games to mediocre competition...
...meant to draw customers from competitors like Sephora and the Nordstrom cosmetics counter. "Segmentation unlocks growth potential," says Fiske. The underlying idea at all the stores is to stock products that don't just make you feel nice (Cucumber Melon bubble bath) but also make you look better (Goldie nail lacquer)--and in the process create a new sort of one-stop shop with a consumer-friendly atmosphere. "What they have recognized," says Donald Trott, specialty-retail analyst at stock-research outfit Jefferies & Co., "is that they have to take it out of the arena of competing with Procter & Gamble...
With nothing but zeros on the scoreboard, Harvard coach Sue Caples got the chance to call upon her sophomore assassin to finally put the nail in the coffin...
...city--not just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry and delirious...
Store owner Patrick Carrier said that a declining travel industry over the past four years hurt his business, and that a scaffolding that obstructed his storefront during this past Christmas was the final nail on the coffin...