Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House failed to take into account that the travel office had a powerful protector in the press, which has long been pampered by the plush level of accommodations. The reporters appreciate the way their favorite drinks are served the minute they sit down in their first-class seats. Family members can come along for a flat $100; any purchases made during trips get hauled back free. A reporter's fingers hardly ever touch luggage...
Mental arithmetic, faced by this weird plastic plush -- seven inches or so of tube per hole, 80 holes on each side -- yields about 3 1/2 miles of plastic tubing; one imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...
...plush stocking embroidered with the name Chris and stuffed with a toy Santa hangs inside Corporal Christopher Sotak's vehicle. The 23-year-old received it from his mother in the last mail shipment before Thanksgiving. On Dec. 25, "we'll get a bag with diced turkey and gravy," says First Sergeant Steven Fisher, 37, Sotak's crewmate. "Christmas will be when you get back home...
...Green himself is barred from exercising inthe Business School's plush Shad Hall athleticfacility. Such minor barriers between sections ofthe University--when considered along with moreserious concerns such as computer networking, theunion negotiations and the capital campaign--haveraised questions about the limits of the possiblecooperation between Harvard's traditionallyseparate faculties...
John S.R. Shad, of the Business School's plush Shad Hall, didn't have to pay anything, sort of. The fitness facility was a gesture of thanks for Shad's $20 million pledge to endow an ethics program...