Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Toys "R" Us has also hurt itself over the past year, analysts say, with neck-snapping shifts in strategy and laggard execution of the blocking and tackling aspects of retailing, such as controlling inventory and providing polite and knowledgeable service. An assistant manager at a New Jersey Toys "R" Us outlet led a visitor through a cavernous storage room piled floor to ceiling with everything from Micro Machines to mattresses. The store's inventory, she said, often surpasses $1 million. Multiply that by the 1,462 Toys "R" Us stores, and you see the scope of the problem...
...screen curves and stretches upward on all sides until the panels catch up with each other and meet harmoniously in a perfect half-sphere, forming a deceivingly delicate, pearly shell that encompasses and dominates the audience for the entire show. The viewer might be tempted to complain about neck strain, but the seats do recline. Besides, when the movie actually starts, one will realize that this is the only way to be surrounded by an infinite sky, and feel the urge to fly or fall right into...
While not as informative as a National Geographic special on a mediocre day, and not quite as entertaining as a decent feature film (which has a comparable admission price), Amazon still offers a fun alternative to staying home. It is worth both the time and temporary discomfort to the neck, even if only because it is an IMAX show. It might not be educational in the strictest sense, but that is not the point. Like most, if not all IMAX pictures, Amazon is all about being swallowed up by a world of vivid color and humbled...
...questions are endless; the process that engenders them is one of medicine's oldest teaching tools. In this cardiac ICU and all over the hospital, young doctors are presenting cases and being interrogated about their observations, interpretations and plans. Tired residents, stethoscopes slung around their neck, dressed in new white coats (short for interns, knee-length for the more senior residents), are questioned--and questioned some more. They will never know enough, but Ohman hopes they will come to hear these questions, even when no one is asking. "I'm trying to create a mind that is inquisitive," he says...
...real pain in the neck," he said,complaining that he cannot fit all the dishes hewould like on his tray. "The way I see it, theydid this to prevent us from taking them back tothe room," he said...