Word: quotidian
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...more and more tools into smaller and smaller devices. The latest triumph of ingenuity over simplicity is the i-Quip, which puts an extraordinary number of traditional gadgets--and quite a few new ones--into a compact design. The i-Quip is divided into two separate pods: one holds quotidian tools (blades, scissors, screwdrivers, etc.), the other such high-tech necessities as a digital compass, a barometer, a clock, a flashlight and an altimeter. INVENTOR Imperial Schrade Corp. AVAILABILITY Now, $250 TO LEARN MORE www.schradeknives.com...
Actively participating in the governing of one’s nation is a goal to which we all, as concerned and conscientious citizens, should aspire. Whether serving in the armed forces, entering the diplomatic corps, or merely performing the quotidian tasks of voting and paying taxes, each citizen’s individual contribution to our country is what makes America the paradigm of republican government our founding fathers intended. That the Harvard community has refused to support ROTC “financially or directly” marginalizes and trivializes the sacrifices that Harvard’s cadets make...
...Ebbers' company was caught heavily in debt for a grab bag of telecom companies, many of which were operating pretty much separately and without the efficiencies he had promised. One reason: for all his aw-shucks manner, Ebbers had come to prefer the glamour of dealmaking to the quotidian work of integrating and running a complex business. "At one time we had more than 40 different billing systems," grouses a former high-level WorldCom executive. Ebbers' solution? Keep buying. His latest target was Sprint, but U.S. and European regulators told him no, a setback that accelerated WorldCom's decline...
...exhibition’s flagship print epitomizes that ingenuity as it depicts the quotidian event of a laborer on the street handling a dolly laden with boxes. Front and center, Levitt constructs a fractured lattice from the box edges, the dolly handles and painted street lines; behind and off to the right, an undulating white canvas runs into a street covering a construction site, thus breaking up that structured rigidity. In the middle background, between the tarpaulin and the worker, cars stream by, having just come out of gridlock. Most unsettling, in the very close left foreground, half a woman?...
...believe. Here, they are one man's worst enemy. The action is set in a 40-story Seoul apartment complex where a frustrated academic, played by Lee Sung Jae, dreams of becoming a professor by bribing the dean with money he doesn't have. His pregnant wife's quotidian demands are exhausting him. And then there are the dogs?the building is a veritable kennel. Lee loses his head when a white poodle one floor down won't stop yapping. He swipes the pooch, climbs to the roof, wraps his hands round the bitch's neck then dangles it over...