Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After some urging from the maternal units, I left the mall that day with a pair of pink Velcro shoes. Displayed on their very own glass shelf, they called out to me from above the fanlike arrangements on the tables. So I blurred the line between “kind of want” and “kind of need” and we drove away with a new pair of shoes. Three months have passed, and I’m looking at them right now, cozied up inside their sleek box and patterned tissue paper. The receipt sits...
...youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there is no off-the-shelf cure. "Our leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the people that have put them into power," says Central Bank governor Rick Hou, one of the country's most respected officials. "It's a pity the Solomon Islands Parliament is filled with...
...great play by [Taylor],” said Crimson captain Noah Welch, who scored his team’s second goal with a top-shelf, power-play blast. “And that’s what we needed...
...display of her talented stick work. Facing Clarkson’s Amanda Dittmer on a 1-on-1 breakaway, Vaillancourt put the puck behind the defender from the right, and then skated around the left to collect it. From there, she put a hard wrister into the top right shelf of the goal to beat McDonald for her fourth goal of the season...
...even after one back-breaking penalty and three quick Harvard scores, the Tigers continued to push and brought the score to 5-3 with a top-shelf power-play goal...