Word: setups
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...performances are completely improvised, “chances are, to the audience, it’s probably going to sound better if they prepare all of the audio ahead of time—it will be a more interesting show sound-wise…whereas [creating] this huge setup to make some really unique music, chances are something might go wrong. That’s the nature of computers these days...
...past two years rolling out RFID tracking of its gourmet take-home foods, supplied to 200-plus stores by 300 providers. The RFID tags are embedded in some 3.5 million food trays and dollies, allowing the company to track the trays and reducing employee hands-on time 80%. While setup costs for a large company can run from $100 million to $200 million, the efficiencies can amount to 1% of revenues (that's theoretically around $100 million at M&S), says TI's Slinger, which supplied Marks & Spencer. "Companies are talking about payback for the investment...
...that's before she gets the bad news: her younger sister Madeleine, who has everything to live for, has leukemia. That's the setup in Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel that's likely to be the first pleasant literary surprise of 2004. Robinson wisely chooses to tell Olivia's story through her letters and e-mail, allowing her to shift with unnerving speed from hilarious satire--in letters to Robin Williams and Danny DeVito begging them to look at scripts--to devastatingly painful accounts of Madeleine's decline. Robinson does both...
Charging that this setup unfairly advantaged Hornstine, school officials considered naming multiple valedictorians...
These fathers try to seal the deal on their invented Montague-and-Capulet setup by hiring the bandit El Gallo (Marty Dinn ’03) and his swashbuckling, scene-stealing cohorts Henry and Mortimar (Thomas Odell ’05 and Neil G. Ellingson ’05). El Gallo and associates stage the rape of Luisa and her rescue by Matt. As planned, when Matt saves his damsel in distress, the two fall more deeply in love, and the fathers find themselves with an opportunity to end their public feuding—for who could hate the father...