Word: orders
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...that ruined harvests and kept the company from making enough of its best-selling Woodbridge Chardonnay to meet demand a year later. But Mondavi neglected to warn retailers of the shortage and failed to put them on allocation--tell them each store could get only part of its order. Instead the winery just shipped what it could, then stopped. Angry retailers canceled their orders--not just for Chardonnay but for all Woodbridge wines, which account for more than two-thirds of Mondavi's sales...
...find it somewhat difficult to respond to Scott Resnick's "May I Take Your Order?" (Opinion, May 21), if only because it's not quite clear what Resnick is demanding. I suspect this is partly because his argument is composed largely of the platitudes of corporate consulting, such as "asking more and demanding less." It seems clear, however, than anyone who can write, without apparent irony, that Harvard should be "a 'Nordstrom's' of the higher education industry" has a gross misconception of the purpose of universities...
...course I took last spring, the professor was lecturing on the development of personality in children. He mentioned that birth order is one of the strongest determining factors in who one turns out to be. First-borns and only children, he said, are by far the most disposed to following traditional paths to success. Then he asked how many of the 200 undergraduates in the lecture hall fit into that group. Ninety percent raised their hands...
...called him and told him to tell her "I'm on the way over to the house to shoot it up." A second call was made in which her boyfriend stated "I'm in Somerville, I have my gun and a bulletproof vest." He had been issued a restraining order one day earlier...
...requested sling and ice pack they added two wrist splints and an order to report to physical therapy and the student disability office. Scribes and voice dictation to do homework, she said. "Are you kidding?" I asked. She wasn...