Word: napkins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone's favorite epidemic in their rush to "think different." Dartboard likes a little postmodern color as much as the next person, but not when it means endangering our wrists. It won't be too long before someone figures out that typing on a keyboard the size of a napkin while standing in front of a terminal carrying a hefty backpack can't be good for the nervous system...
...well. Vicky works from 10:45 to 7:45 p.m. five nights a week, with two half-hour unpaid breaks to eat. She describes her day, "at 11, we eat, get up, put desserts out, and start working. We're done at two and we clean tables, fill up napkin holders and get the desserts for dinner ready...
...British paper last week, Posh says 75 rented silver goblets disappeared after the nuptials. Replacing stolen goods was not a cost the couple figured into their $800,000 party, so the newlywed made a public appeal: "If anyone has them, please give them back. You can keep the velvet napkin rings...
...feel fine. No sweaty palms, no tingling head; I can finally exhale. Along with some 25 million other Americans, I'm usually deathly afraid of airplanes. A bounce here, a FASTEN SEAT BELT light there, and I'm ready to start penning my will on a crumpled cocktail napkin. But I'm sick of being scared. So before boarding my last flight, I took a crash course in virtual-reality exposure therapy--a high-tech technique that is supposed to help people like me overcome our fear of flying...
Still, anyone with a pencil and a napkin can calculate that a lot more money has poured out of DreamWorks than has flowed in. It's what you'd expect with a start-up, but as long as that's so, speculation will continue as to whether the company can exist in its present configuration. An insider at DreamWorks says change seems to be in the air. "At this point, the shoe hasn't dropped," the executive says, "but there is a shoe...