Word: slews
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...World Class reps use the debaucheries, sex and hedonism of Spring Break like candy to distract most spring breakers from the issue at hand - downgraded accommodations and a slew of other costs hidden in the original contract, specifically the $150 "free" party package. The Reps even give each spring-breaker a complimentary "Spring Break Survival Kit" fully equipped with condoms and breath mints, Cancun must-haves...
...There were a few people down there who played racquetball, but there was a whole slew of handball players," Letteri said. "They used to get upset at me when I would take the court to play racquetball, saying that I should play handball...
...brain represents the content of our thoughts and feelings. Yes, we may know where jealousy happens--or visual images or spoken words--but "where" is not the same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people...
...blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape. The group's first decent rally in 10 years took shape last December. Biotechs bedazzled for three months, surging 175%--only to crumble over the past few weeks. A slew of "promising" companies are now worth half what they fetched in the market the first week of March. Some much less. Consider this biobomb: Protein Design Labs leaped from $97 on Feb. 4 to $327 on March 2 and back to $97 on March 7--completing an expensive round trip...
...Z.com's acquisitions is a six-minute pilot for a claymation series called Rotten Fruit, about an English band whose members curse at one another. You don't need much of an idea for a six-minute show. But for that idea, the writers got $10,000 and a slew of stock options. "For clients who want to do something different and keep ownership, it's an incredible opportunity," says the writers' agent, Peter Micelli of CAA, one of many agents who began pushing Web deals a few months...