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...waking up early for the 9:15 game, grabbing breakfast before the noon game, eating a hot dog and slushie before the 2:45 game, dunking my head in ice water before the 5:30 game, and trading stories with the other umpires at dusk before the 8 o'clock game under the floodlights...
...What is the angle between the hands of a clock...
Apart from the television, clock radio, pants presser, wet bar, complimentary bottled water and chocolate truffles, no two bedrooms are the same. Some are hung with botanical prints from the Museum of Natural History, others with watercolor paintings...
NationsBank and its big competitors emphasize new services, offering everything from mortgages to mutual funds via round-the-clock banking. "When we acquire a company in a new neighborhood, then obviously some of the things that customers have been accustomed to will change," says Lynn Drury, a NationsBank spokeswoman. "Some services can be added and some taken away. Some fees may go up and some go down. And because some people are uncomfortable with change, they might choose to go to another bank." Indeed, such refugees are enabling new local banks that stress service to customers to blossom...
...friends become the only survivors in a landscape where "endless cars and trucks and minivans sit on road shoulders harboring cargoes of rotted skeletons." In the future, all humanity has collapsed in sleepy death, money has become worthless, and the endless days are tracked only by the clock on Wendy's PowerBook. "Tennis rackets silently unstring inside dark dry closets...