Word: styrofoam
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...pilots are perfectly willing to ground themselves and the nation's largest carrier, taking with them its 90,000 employees. Their anger is directed at one employee in particular, Robert Crandall, chairman of AMR. "As long as you treat your employees as merely 'units costs,' like the Styrofoam coffee cups we throw out after every flight, morale will remain at rock bottom," wrote one pilot on the very active Website of the Allied Pilots' Association, which represents American's pilots...
...give their loyalty, pay money to attend games and wear odd and undignified clothing proclaiming their undying support for the local team. To cite only the most obvious of innumerable recent examples, the success of the Green Bay Packers this year spawned a national industry devoted entirely to producing styrofoam hats which vaguely resemble pieces of cheese...
Like birds, which evolved independently 70 million years later, pterosaurs had bones that were hollow and lightweight. (One scientist refers to pterosaur skeletons as "Styrofoam and mailing tubes.") But of all the trademarks of a pterosaur, one of the most peculiar was its hand, which boasted three clawlike fingers of normal size and a fourth digit that was outlandishly long. It was this fourth finger that provided structural support for the wings. Made of a skin-like membrane, the wings were supported by thousands of microscopic fibers that acted rather like the ribs of a folding umbrella, creating a flexible...
...also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live in sin with her. Just to be even-handed, we know that Jane's a jerk because she berates her boyfriend for using styrofoam cups and uses pop-psych lingo, though in temperament she seems less like Oprah than Ilse, She-Wolf...
...Easley Hammer, principal of the architectural firm working with the bank, illustrated his proposals with an elaborate styrofoam model of the area...