Word: stickering
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...boss loves her for her tart tongue and tough stands: he still keeps the bumper sticker bearing her infamous sneer at Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign...
...these gems, you probably won't for a few months. Nintendo sold out their original U.S shipment of 750,000 units within days back in September, almost all through advance orders. Ultra 64 units are being hocked for as much as $750 this season, almost four times the sticker price...
Designed to survive on its own millions of miles from home, a probe only 6 ft. long can cost $1 billion--more than half the sticker price of a space shuttle. The problem is that even expensive ships can go south on you, which is just what happened in 1993, when the Mars Observer--a spacecraft that was NASA's only attempted Mars mission since 1976--apparently blew an aneurysm in a fuel line and spiraled off into space. Goldin decided that such Cadillac probes should be replaced with more-modest ones: stripped-down ships made of components already...
Sales of Japanese cars equipped with cd-rom and satellite navigation systems are already surging--from 306,000 in 1994 to a projected 750,000 this year. Electronics and software account for 20% of the sticker price of today's new models, up from 5% less than 30 years ago. By 2005, a government advisory panel predicted this spring, Japan's market for information equipment in automobiles will be worth $6.2 billion annually...
Pzena first learned how to brew while an undergraduate studying economics at the University of Chicago. He now drives a pick-up truck with a bumper sticker reading "Think Globally, Brew Locally...