Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That, at least, is the way NASA planners hope things will go; so far it looks as if they'll get their wish. The ships that will be used for these ambitious missions are remarkably cheap ones, hammered together from available, off-the-shelf parts. While this makes for less elegant vehicles, it also makes for less pricey ones. They cost no more than $250 million, in contrast to the $1.48 billion it costs to build luxury liners like the still-to-be-launched Cassini Saturn probe. Cheap ships means more of them, and for space planners that...
Inside stores, Coke and Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and Lee jeans, meanwhile, hang in the windows of clothing sellers...
...hang up the phone and grab my portable alarm clock off the adjacent shelf. It's 9:13 a.m. I drop the clock to the floor, roll over and go back to sleep...
...Lamont has a lot of books. I've never had a problem with a book missing from the shelf," he said. "Before, it was an inconvenience to renew books every two weeks...
...None of us were doing a hell of a lot of work," he says. "There were one or two people who were going to be a Bill Clinton...but for most of us it was like we were on the shelf for a while...