Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Virtually everyone is selling them these days, from Radio Shack to department stores. And it's a good time to buy. Mark Lowenstein, an analyst at the Yankee Group, says prices have come down 20% during the past year. "There's a real battle for shelf space," he says. Topp Telecom even began selling Uniden's TracFones through selected 7-Elevens this month. You can also find them at Eckerd's drugstores and Pilot gas stations. The TracFone is sort of a cellular "Saturday-night special": pony up $99 and walk away with a cheap but effective phone with...
...perhaps the loudest, at least in decibel-to-kilogram ratio. He has a few weaknesses: exposing his buttocks, sassing his father, making prank calls to Moe's Tavern ("Is Oliver there? Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney sweep. One of the few trophies on his bedroom shelf is labeled EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY...
...Cops in Shops" program places plainclothes police officers in liquor stores posing as store clerks, shelf stockers or customers. Undercover officers are also located outside of liquor stores...
Judging by the titles of his books--The Death of Satan; Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now; Moby-Dick Or, the Whale--the writing of Andrew H. Delbanco '73 would seem more at home as beach reading than on the shelf of a highbrow literary critic...
...course of the inventory, a little before 10:30 a.m., the researchers handled a glass two-liter bottle of the caustic chemical isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, and then replaced it on a top shelf...