Word: tented
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Visiting Rocco's is less like entering a restaurant than like crossing the border into a pleasurable but intrusive security state. In a red tent on the sidewalk, a well-dressed young woman asks you to sign a release--five pages of teensy-print legalese ("I warrant and represent that I am not currently a candidate for public office ..."). Inside, the surveillance is near total: in addition to five camera crews weaving around the wait staff, there are cameras on the ceiling, over the bar and behind two-way mirrors. Producers assure me there are none in the bathrooms...
...Democrats are truly the "big tent" party, and as such, we are a much more diverse party than the Republicans. And because of this diversity, we Dems are often at odds with one another. We are a party that allows dissent, even thrives on it. Many consider this dissension a sign of weakness, and regard the G.O.P., which tolerates little disagreement, as a party of strength. That view is wrong. The Democratic Party is the party from the heart of America. We represent Americans of every nationality, creed and religion. Could we do better? No question. Can we do better...
...shopping is hassle free. Outdoor equipment retailer REI, based in Kent, Wash., makes smart use of technology, according to Forrester's Delhagen, by placing computer kiosks on its sales floor that allow the customer to search its entire inventory. "The store can't carry every size and shape of tent stake," Delhagen says, "so an associate will walk you over and find you the one you need." The lesson for retailers: don't fall in love with new technology unless your customers get to play with...
...called the assembly of deans, professors and administrators “a circus tent full of poo-bahs and elephants and charlatans...
During World War I, University President A. Lawrence Lowell feared that the “sideshows” were overshadowing education, the big tent event at Harvard, according to Secretary of the Faculty John...