Word: shelfful
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Bound volumes of presidential reports dating back more than 150 years cover a shelf on the back wall of the University Archives and contain the yearly musings of Harvard presidents throughout some of the biggest changes in the University's history...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
That seemed pretty interesting, so the scientists started casting about for cheaper off-the-shelf compounds that had characteristics similar to their rather expensive sorbitol construct. They eventually came up with sucrose polyester, a class of compounds that sports as many as eight fatty acids crowded around alcohol groups that hang, in turn, off a ring of sucrose molecules. By contrast, the naturally occurring fats known as triglycerides include just three fatty acids...
...formally with the foundation, his sympathetic attention to what it produces is enough to bring it support from people who see it as an indirect route to the Speaker's ear. "Of all the think tanks, that's one whose reports are not just going to sit on the shelf,'' says lobbyist Jim Tozzi, whose firm has helped tobacco and chemical firms fight government regulations. "If I give somebody money, I want to make sure the report will be read. If I give to that group, I know it will...
During the past week, more than a dozen people perched themselves behind the same tatty 1819 writing table to fill out the Declaration of Candidacy form, which is kept on the shelf right next to the application forms for Notary Public. The registrants include not only Phil Gramm and Bob Dole but also the Rev. Billy Joe Clegg from Biloxi, Mississippi, whose slogan is "Clegg Won't Pull Your Leg" and who swears that Jesus is his campaign manager. There's also the poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build...