Word: blandness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...partner with the business background he lacked: Jeff Skoll, a friend and Stanford M.B.A., then working in e-commerce for Knight Ridder. Together they began to bring in more employees--techies, customer-support staff, finance people. In those early days, eBay--operating then as now out of a bland San Jose, Calif., office park--was a goofily informal place to work. Decor ran to Star Wars figures and giant papier-mache Pez dispensers, a wedding gift when Pierre and Pam tied the knot. The first employees had to assemble their own desks, and everyone sat on fold-up beach chairs...
...asked, "Who's to blame?" That is not the issue. It is the grief the entire Aggie family is suffering at the loss of 12 brothers and sisters, and our pain for the students who were injured. Please take into consideration the anguish we continue to feel. CARRIE L. BLAND, CLASS OF '00 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas...
...some tracks, however, The Master suffers from dull production that doesn't do justice to Rakim's lyrical skill. Much of the music on the album lacks the ingenuity and funkiness of Rakim's previous recordings, and even the scratching that appears in most of the tracks sounds bland. But despite these shortcomings, Rakim still lives up to his reputation as master of the mic. He'll make you clap to this...
...Carter and Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional, with no real reason for the audience to relate to them, and it's hard especially not to moan the unused talent of the marvelous Hannah in particular. Depalowski is the flattest, most stereo-typical, most singularly bland villain imaginable. The three Canadians, despite interesting flashes, are really nothing more than ornament to the film. And Martin, in Jewison's single-minded determination to parallel his story to Carter's, becomes no more than a rather tedious character...
...exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants on another. At least the view of Manhattan is magnificent--as Shemmer leads me on a tour of the office I take in the architecture of the bridge and an unobstructed view of the city...