Word: penned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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First place goes to UBS with their smooth, sleek, gray and silver pen. The color palette says to those who see it, “yes I work ridiculous hours, but I’m rich, bitch!” Nevertheless, what matters is what’s under the hood, so to speak, and taking the top off this pen doesn’t disappoint. Once the cap is removed the entire balance of the pen changes. This is because the inside of the cap is lined with a soft rubbery material. The pen now balances perfectly...
...also gets bonus points for being the only company to provide two different types of pens. The other model is an exercise in function over form. With a highlighter on one end and a pen point on the other, it is the perfect accessory for this multitasking generation. However, the pretentious name of the pen, the “Senator,” and the condescending instructions telling us to “twist” to open the pen, hurts its overall score. The pen’s most glaring design flaw is the cap for the highlighter...
...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...outside the box-whether it?s Dr. Charles?s divertissements or Theo?s trading of Nomar. They?ve kept the game fun-even, often, funny-for the fans. Here was another idea that at least made you perk up, and probably made you smile. ?The Big Guy in the pen,? you said to yourself. ?Wild. Well...
...speeding downhill at 40 m.p.h. when a 65-year-old man accidentally drove a Mitsubishi Montero into his path. Head down, Lewis arrowed into the car. Later, a minister waited outside Lewis' hospital room ready to administer last rites, but the young rider regained consciousness. He asked for a pen, scribbled something on a bloodstained piece of paper and handed it to his coach. "Ride?" the note said. Two months later, Lewis was back on his bike...