Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman noticed large brown leather shoes and ripped clothes with paint stains in a pile on the floor. She said she realized that these clothes did not belong to a student and asked for the identity of the person in the shower...
...Kodak's bets on the future have so far brought more problems than profits. After investing billions of dollars to create the industry's most extensive line of digital cameras, Kodak could pile up losses of more than $100 million this year, and some analysts doubt that the effort will ever pay off. The devices (price range: $200 to $900) record images on microchips for computer users. But the field is already glutted with dozens of rivals, from traditional camera makers such as Canon and Nikon to Silicon Valley giants like Hewlett-Packard. Fisher counters that naysayers saw few profits...
...gentle voice Rawson tells me about how he grew up in east Boston, fast-forwarding almost immediately to his first night in the ring: he won all four fights and received a watch for his troubles-a watch he still has. As the victory watches started to pile up, he sent them off to aunts, uncles and cousins-"Sometimes I'd ask for a lady's watch," he tells...
...born and raised in D.C. and grew up appearing in his father's campaign commercials. ("Son," Dad said in one, "always love your country.") He learned early the benefits of pretense. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, Gore's response to any problems of personal image making has been to pile further layers of artifice atop his already artificial public persona. At every appearance nowadays he uncorks a couple of self-deprecating gags about his wooden demeanor; he delivers them--surprise--woodenly. He has made gimmicky, scripted appearances on late-night TV. Far worse, however, he has taken a cue from...
...waste of our resources on "crimes" that are merely consensual pleasures, the costly incarceration of millions of harmless Americans, the corruption of police departments by asset-forfeiture programs. If only we would remember that in America money talks and if only we would listen to a person with a pile of it, we might save trillions of dollars and avoid much agony. Now we know how to create change: get a renegade billionaire to back your cause! DAN FURST Honolulu...