Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...adjoining 200,000-sq.-ft. (18,600 sq m) exhibition hall, dozens of Berkshire companies displayed their wares. Shareholders lined up to buy Fruit of the Loom underwear, find out how much they could save with Geico insurance and tour a Clayton manufactured home. See's Candies expected to rack up $100,000 in sales in a single day, while Benjamin Moore paints hawked its promotional teddy bears--the sort of thing that would be free from other companies--for $5. "We don't give things away here," said general manager Frank Strano. "Warren doesn't believe in that...
...Carriers also use underhanded tactics to profit off of text messaging. For example, many carriers promote their text messages heavily but set the default limit for new customers unrealistically low, hoping that many will surpass it and rack up huge additional fees in their first month. What’s especially frustrating is that using text messages is hard to avoid. Even if carriers didn’t make it difficult, if not impossible, to call and disable the feature, friends serve as the biggest exit barrier. People who send a text message expect another back in reply, especially during...
...whether or not people should raise and slaughter animals. Even though PETA’s prize is presented for the wrong reasons, it will still nonetheless be a boost to a field that could take decades to mature. And when it does, I call dibs on the first rack of polar bear ribs.Steven T. Cupps ’09, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a biological anthropology and economics concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...enjoy during the movie. The event also included an Eco-Month Clothing Swap with a designated box from which anyone could add or take clothes that would then be donated to the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. The last activity of the night was a “mug-rack painting,” where students contributed their personal design to a new mug-tree for the Lowell dining hall. The HoCo-sponsored event was part of Lowell House’s Eco Month activities, which also include an “eco trivia night?...
...Harvard track and field team continued to rack up personal bests this weekend at the Brown Invitational in Providence, R.I. Though the women finished fourth out of seven teams, and the men brought home seventh, there were several bright spots individually and the squad can have a lot to look forward to following this weekend. “It was a good meet for us,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “We were able to work on some things that need to get done. We had some great performances all around.”Senior...