Word: lines
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...told a story of being a kid and wondering what this organization was his parents were working for," says Robert Winters, publisher of the on-line Cambridge Civic Journal. "He grew up with that tradition of working for local government as a child...
MEMORABLE MOMENT The tractor carrying Channing and Hirt stalls on the 35-yd.-line, while a prop hot-air balloon almost crushes costumed Southern Belles...
...which is soon to offer salsa dancing, and the cafeteria, which just that afternoon was celebrating kielbasa day. Then I asked Primrose the most important question at any new job: "How closely do you guys look at the expense reports?" She paused. "We are focused on that bottom line. You're going to have to watch it there." I told her I'd hold off on the dessert wine at lunch. I think she wanted me to sacrifice more, but you can't take blood from a stone, people...
...Most had to guess well in advance how many Amazing Ally dolls they needed for the season. "Overestimate," Sharma says, "and you're left holding the bag. Underestimate, and your customers are putting rain checks in people's stockings." It's a tricky balance, and it affects the bottom line. Many e-tailers have abandoned all hope of profit in their race to win market share. "But if customer-acquisition costs are only part of the red ink," Sharma warns, "then your cost of doing business is too high or you're not charging enough...
...getting neurotic. The weather makes me, shall we say, existentially nervous. Partly, this may be a spinoff from the self-important millennium, which spilled inarticulate little anxieties here and there in the mind. The anticipation of the world crossing a line and changing irreversibly - transformed into an alien place where nature is haywire and old rules (even familiar cycles of seasons and temperatures) no longer apply - all that seems unofficially confirmed by wild meteorological swings...