Word: reams
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...told you could get thesis paper for about $10 a ream, but [Coop employees] pointed me to a big shelf filled with paper that cost $44," Heinicke said...
...each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
...deeper level, power plays a more urgentrole than prestige. Cats turn the station-wagonmom into entrepreneur, make the insurance salesmanan absolute monarch with uncontested authorityover a feline ream. Human fascination with sex haslong spilled over to a vicarious interest in theromantic lives of domesticated animals. One couplesays, "Ever since we got our first Ocicat fiveyears ago, we've been really into breeding...
This gave me several ideas. The first was that if letters to famous people could acquire such value, I should myself write a ream of them to Madonna, which, when they came back stamped "insufficient address" (we've lost touch), I would save for my old age and then sell...
...last years, surrounded by flacks and barracuda (from whom he was, to put it mildly, not protected by his wife Gala, who died in 1982), were a cautionary horror. Several years ago, when his hands had long been too shaky to draw but could still scribble, he signed ream upon ream of blank sheets that now bear forged "Dali lithographs," the pride and joy of suckers from New Jersey to Brisbane, Australia...