Word: nondescriptive
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Supermodel Claudia Schiffer drew reporters to a nondescript supermarket in her hometown of Rheinberg, Germany, last month, when she presided over its rechristening as a high-tech "Future Store" designed to showcase and test interactive shopping technology. She was the star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises...
...Institute quietly informed alums of the change on page four of the summer 2003 edition of the Radcliffe Quarterly, beneath a nondescript headline that reads “Announcement of New Office of Alumnae Services...
...Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam, Buraydah, a nondescript town about 200 miles northwest of Riyadh, is the nursery of the faith's radical vanguard...
...recent years, it has become a rarity to find students heading into the tunnels. There are hundreds of entrances, many of them through nondescript basement doors in the houses. However, all of the tunnel doors have been alarmed and linked to a central control room that is monitored 24-hours-a-day, making access difficult (not to mention criminal). But wandering the tunnels still seems like a worthwhile pursuit. I think I’ll give it a shot...
...tore down thousands of temples. Today the destruction continues apace, this time in the name of modernization as local governments often choose concrete over culture. This year alone the Three Gorges Dam project will begin flooding countless archaeological sites, while hundreds of historic neighborhoods nationwide will be replaced by nondescript apartment blocks. "This is a very big country," laments Song Xinchao, a deputy director at the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in Beijing. "It's hard to keep track of all our ancient treasures, especially when modernization is one of our national goals." Indeed, last year in Leshan, a decidedly...