Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main aspects in the renovation of the 108-year-old building are the computerization of the museum's collection and the installation of a new sliding shelf system, only recently adopted by archaeological museums...
...staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle or a VW Beetle: it looks especially good in rows. Something about the rows, all the neat chunky boxes, one after the other, facing forward like a drill team on the shelf. Something about the shelf, third from the top, aisle B, toward the rear of the store, about which there is also something, as there is about the street and the hour of the day, any day, and the headache or the sniffles...
...making the team at 10,000 to one, but Pellegrini received some much overdue luck by injuring his back in last year's exhibition game against the Giants. Such an occurrence may not at first seem like luck, but it allowed the Jets to put Pellegrini on the shelf last year, and give him another shot this summer, at a time when his services were more in demand. He quickly recovered from the back injury and became a practice player with the Jets for all of last season...
...whir of modernization has transformed the store in ways Knox scarcely could have imagined when she entered the operation in 1925--and, what's more, in ways that would have appeared utterly alien to the cooperative's motley founders some 50 years earlier. It has grown from "a shelf or two in what was chiefly a fruit store" (as one historian puts it) to a multi-million dollar diversified retail business with six branches around the Boston area. Throughout the school year and summer, students, alumni and faculty of Harvard and MIT, as well as the general public, crowd...
...registration fee, top-shelf shoppers were greeted at the airport by young women in tuxedos and whisked by limousine to the MGM Grand Hotel, where they were lectured by Economist Arthur Laffer and entertained by Bob Hope as they mingled with other high rollers. Inside the hotel's Capitol Room, even those who were not striking deals said that they had got their money's worth. "I'm always interested in finding out what's happening in the marketplace, and it's not always easy to find out what's happening," explained G. Allan...