Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Remember that 25-page paper you wrote for your seminar last year? See all of those notebooks neatly lined up on your shelf, overflowing with equations and philosophical principles? Well, hate to break it to you, but all of those expos papers you passed in at 4:59 P.M. aren’t going to help you graduate. You forgot to write the most important paper of all: your diploma slip...
...Already, every couple of hours Nike sends a batch of orders from Nike.com to a UPS facility in Kentucky. Within minutes a UPS employee using a state-of-the-art radio-frequency bar-code reader, grabs the item--usually made in Asia and delivered directly to UPS--off the shelf. The product, often a pair of Nike's famous shoes, is then quality checked by another UPS employee, carefully packed and sent out the door within 24 hours. "While Nike is researching how to make a better product or looking for another Michael Jordan, we're handling this side...
...Lancers notched their first goal 17:28 into the second frame, when Kyle Voy went top-shelf on Harvard’s John Daigneau. They then knotted the score at two just 0:22 into the final period, as Crimson junior Andrew Lederman sat in the sin bin for obstruction-hooking, a penalty carried over from the previous frame...
...real figures of ridicule are the pompous husband-and-wife acting coaches (modeled on Lee and Paula Strasberg) who hold Kitty in their sway. But even those caricatures (entertainingly acted by Stephen Lang and Linda Lavin) seem to grow out of Miller's genuine animosity, not plucked from a shelf of prefab Hollywood clich?...
...harsh nature pervades the show, for which the Guggenheim has swathed the walls of its famous spiral ramp in black felt as a somber background. Early on, one encounters the splendid and somewhat hair-raising clay sculpture known as the Eagle Warrior, circa 1440-69, staring down from a shelf 6 ft. off the floor, as if on a ledge to surprise his enemies. Not far behind him looms the grisly god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli, circa 1480, his rib cage exposed and his liver hanging out. The pair encapsulates some of the dualities that created a dynamic tension throughout...