Word: paraphernalia
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...they kept coming, at a rate of 1,000 an hour through the weekend. Baltes, 58, who owns and runs the campaign-paraphernalia company Tigereye Design, has made pins, hats, T shirts and key chains for every Democratic presidential candidate (and a few Republicans) since 1976. Baltes and his wife Monica started out making pins out of their bedroom, working all night to finish their first order of 3,000 pins for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Their mutual love of politics soon centered their business on campaigns...
...perfect match when the Obama campaign chose to buck the traditional system of hiring a vendor to produce and distribute its paraphernalia. The bulk of the profit from $20.08 T shirts (the most popular item) and other gear goes to the campaign as a donation. Baltes produces the goods and ships them to wherever Obama is speaking; last-minute events may find one of his employees scrambling for a flight with suitcases stuffed full of Obama swag. Other candidates have now expressed interest in Baltes' wares. But his loyalty--and business--remains with Obama...
...many Harvard students, the initial run on textbooks at the Coop will be the only time they visit a bookstore this semester. Which is a shame, because while Harvard Square may lack Central Square’s abundance of vendors selling groceries and sexual paraphernalia, it’s one of the best places in Boston to browse for books. Until last week, that is. Recent developments at one of the Square’s largest booksellers have pitted bibliophiles against Coop officials. For anyone who has enough of a life to have not followed the scandal, here?...
...potential to make money," says Chu. At the Ning Hou gallery, a Shanghainese artist's abstract sculptures and impressionist paintings carry price tags as high as $50,000. Inside the Dai Loy gambling museum, exhibits show how punters used teacups and buttons for table games to disguise gambling paraphernalia from the police. Dealers also kept brass knuckles and lead pipes on hand in case of violence...
...than highlight the horrors of war: it also captures the minutiae of daily life. A claustrophobic tent reconstructs the unit's sleeping quarters, replete with its mosquito nets, toiletries, uncomfortable cots, a portable shower and the overbearing scent of plastic sheets. Scattered across the room are letters and personal paraphernalia, donated by more than 150 soldiers...