Word: ripe
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...while the drugstore market may be "ripe for the picking," as Forrester analyst Kate Delhagen argues, it's not low-hanging fruit. A sick person is not going to wait the necessary three to five shipping days for delivery of antibiotics. Instead, the online stores are focusing on people who at regular intervals order maintenance medication for everything from impotence to high blood pressure and high cholesterol. These are the drugstores' most coveted customers, and their purchases make up half the $100 billion prescription business...
...first artist to develop fully the landscape-as-property theme in Australia was John Glover (1767-1849), who settled in Tasmania at the ripe age of 64. He was a mediocre professional who knew, and sedulously imitated, the work of Claude Lorrain. But in Australia he did the best work of his life, celebrating the pastoral delights of land ownership and commemorating the Aborigines, whose way of life was being inexorably destroyed by white farmers like him. No painter in Australia ever committed himself as wholeheartedly to recording the life of Aborigines as, say, American artist George Catlin...
Keane is in a ten-way Democratic race for the eighth congressional district seat of Mass., which is ripe for the taking after Joseph P. Kennedy II announced he will not seek re-election...
...Thailand, so you'll have to take your own measurements). Looking for that hard-to-find anthropology book? Amazon.com is your best bet. Yearn to have your weekly groceries delivered to your door? Peapod.com exists to make your grocery shopping easier--and it even lets you specify how ripe you like your bananas. How about if you want to know the difference between several brands of stereo receivers? Try Compare.Net, which offers a free online buyer's guide that allows users to compare features on more than 10,000 products...
Clinton was the first to recognize how ripe a target managed care had become. In 1996 he seized on protecting mothers and their newborns against health plans that forced them out of the hospital only hours after delivery. Republicans, led by New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, quickly trumped the campaign against "drive-through deliveries" with their own legislation against "drive-through mastectomies." And soon G.O.P. rank-and-filers such as Georgia Congressman Charlie Norwood, a dentist, and Iowa's Greg Ganske, a plastic surgeon, were out ahead of most Democrats in fomenting a broader assault on managed care...