Word: shapes
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...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...Nobody gets terribly bent out of shape about results now, except for the players," Fish said...
While the evidence for the decline of reefs is based on observations of only a few hundred reefs out of uncounted thousands, scientists around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed. Already, some experts estimate, 10% of the earth's reefs have been mortally wounded. Thirty percent are in critical shape and may die within the next 10 to 20 years. And an additional 30% are coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near...
This marks the first in a series of "Election 1996" columns, which will seek to examine the major issues of both policy and politics that will shape the campaign in its final weeks. Some may legitimately wonder whether it is necessary to use up the space, time and trees necessary to publish columns on an election whose outcome seems a foregone conclusion. No president has ever been leading by such a wide margin at such a late date and then gone on to lose. Unless space aliens blow up the White House and the President is somehow unable to shoot...
...addition, I have a great opportunity to get in shape, given the proximity of the Q-RAC and the invigorating walk that gives me an acute sense of alertness in Stats 100. But just to ensure that I fail in my efforts to become an athletic machine, each Quad house offers the irresistible temptation of cable television, whether you would prefer to watch the Cambridge Zoning Board on Public Access Television, the World's Strongest Man Competition on the Deuce, or the creative and ground-breaking new Hootie video...