Word: tiled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Corzine are pushing a bill that would limit the amount of an employer's stock in its 401(k) plan and ease restrictions on how soon employees could sell it. Boxer only had to dust off a similar bill she proposed in 1997, when Texas retailer Color Tile went bankrupt. No one is vocally opposing the Boxer-Corzine bill--yet. "There's a lot of shrapnel up here," says a Senate staff member. "People are keeping their heads down." But businesses and their lobbyists don't like the idea, arguing that the restrictions would push employers to stop offering matching...
...skin? What will I find inside of there?…My goal becomes finding a bone, getting far enough into my leg to touch ossified ivory mass, to massage my own skeleton with my Tweezerman scalpel. I work on this task for hours. Blood spurts everywhere, the white tile on the bathroom floor is covered with stains, blood drips down my legs, there is blood on my hands, blood on the sundress I wear, and I am too busy trying to find a bone to notice...
...Merger Fund, has begun accepting new money from investors for the first time in two years. And his timing looks good. Last week Phillips Petroleum agreed to acquire Conoco for $15 billion in stock, followed swiftly by carpetmaker Mohawk Industries' $1.4 billion deal to buy flooring company Dal-Tile and the announcement of a $3 billion cruise-line merger of Royal Caribbean with Princess. There was even talk that cruise-line heavy Carnival might pre-empt that deal by bidding for Princess...
...collagen injection. But this isn’t an infomercial about age-defying cream, but about the Shark Steam Blaster, which can “blast your house clean with the power of steam.” This amazing machine now saves Karen Cower the trouble of scrubbing tile grout with a toothbrush and eliminates baby smells in Deanna Waterworth’s house. No more scrubbing or spraying; just watch as the Shark Steam Blaster liquefies grease and cuts through grime...
...standard problem of trying to put an overfed, bloated cat to sleep, things are going well for him, until he recieves a phone call from his estranged family. He quickly finds out that not only is his father sick, but apparently, the family business doesn’t involve tile or stucco—it involves running numbers and other unmentioned mafia-type things. For his entire life, he has been oblivious to the fact that his father (Peter Falk, “Columbo”) is the leader of an underground crime ring...