Word: shop
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...couldn't even have begun to dream about in 1954, when, at age 22, he left his native Austria for Canada with $200 in his pocket and about the same number of English words in his vocabulary. Three years later he managed to start up a tool-and-die shop in a rented garage in downtown Toronto, and in 1960 he signed a contract with General Motors to produce sun-visor brackets for Chevrolets and Pontiacs. Over the following decade, Stronach pulled together a team of mostly German and Austrian tool-and-die workers to make more parts for more...
Long term, Audible doesn't want to stay in the hardware business: its money will come from programming. To that end, the company has been partnering with book publishers, newspapers, magazines and broadcasters to put their narrated words online at www.audible.com There you can buy the MobilePlayer and shop for programming, including current best sellers that you can download to your PC, then listen to or transfer to the portable device. (Mac-compatible software is expected by year...
...talking, a man and a woman appear and stop to talk shop loudly no more than 3 ft. from where we are sitting. Though it has to be clear that McDonough and I are in quiet conversation, they bray at each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows...
...SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP
STRENGTHS Millions who "live" in online cities will probably shop in them...