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  • I wrote a 2-page letter of complaint to Customer Relations yesterday after yet again failing to be able to add time to the account, which at last count had only three minutes remaining of the out-of-the box allocation.

    TINAG : Bev Vincent 2009

  • Looking for inspiring, out-of-the box restaurants somewhere else?

    Healthy, Charitable California Restaurants Nicole Larson 2011

  • Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011

  • An independent publicist will think out-of-the box and tailor your press materials to the market she is pitching.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » What an Independent Publicist can do for you 2009

  • Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011

  • Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011

  • Perhaps not all the fiction published by web-based or small-circulation magazines and out-of-the way presses measures up to the highest literary standards (neither does the fiction appearing in McSweeney's or The Paris Review), but if you can find Brian Ames there, you're doing pretty well.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • I ask, just how far down the hell hole has the USA gone when hiring quotas placed on employers is considered mainstream, when the Patriot Act and violating the 4th amendment is considered mainstream, when sending our troops all over the globe is now mainstream, when spending outrageously was considered acceptable and mainstream for Republicans during the Bush years, only now do they consider it radical and out-of-the – mainstream.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

  • "On a big down day, someone looks to have bought a lot of out-of-the money long-term calls," said Brian Overby , senior options analyst at TradeKing.

    Contrarians Look for Upside in Travelers Chris Dieterich 2011

  • Europeans consider it charming to walk through neighborhoods to find out-of-the way, hidden treasures, Ms. Ekobo says.

    3 Small-Business Blunders to Avoid This Year Susan Wilson Solovic 2012

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