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...water-based solution on clothes to remove odors and wrinkles; a cabinet that circulates warm air to dry delicates; and a sink with three microjets that mimic a hand-washing motion. The Family Studio can cost $5,000, or more than five times as much as a plain-vanilla washer-dryer set. "The bottom line is that the average person spends 400 hours a year doing laundry, and we can offer some tools to make it easier," says brand manager Mara Villanueva. "We don't truly believe we're going to get people to love laundry...
...Every time the window washer comes over I wonder if I can deduct the cost as a job expense,” Collins joked, eliciting one of a series of loud chuckles from the audience...
...actuarial tables show that a 30-year-old decedent with a wife, a child and a stockbroker's $80,000 annual salary will suffer $2,521,248 in economic losses. But life isn't a statistical table. The stockbroker's death meant more lost income than a window washer's, but what if the window washer cared for a mentally retarded child? How much should his family be compensated for lost services...
...still see the hole like it was yesterday, and it was. Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. It was the size of a small room, the mud room in our house, say, where we kept our boots and slickers and where Mom had managed to fit a washer and dryer, one on top of the other. I could almost stand up in it, but Mr. Harvey had to stoop. He'd created a bench along the sides of it by the way he'd dug it out. He immediately sat down...
...local friend calls on the cell phone, and Raitt starts negotiating the return of three socks--green, plum and black--that she left at his house, where she did her laundry the day before. Why did she do her laundry there? "Because he has a washer-dryer," she says, like duh. Does she know the hotel has laundry service? "At $3 a sock!" she replies. "I'm Scottish and Quaker. Double frugal." After the band's post-concert meal, she tries to persuade the road manager to pack up the leftover tofu and brown rice. "Otherwise," she laments, "they...