The first time he fired up his double hot plate, the fuse-box door was open and he witnessed a cerulean flash and a rattail of smoke, the first of four fuses it took to fry one egg.
Minutes into the meeting, a foreboding package from a client arrived at the door: a box stuffed with 17 kilos' worth of promotional material--duplicate copies of research reports, newsletters and brochures--sent by groups within Pricewaterhouse's 1, 500-strong worldwide promotion machine.
Mr Kumparak initially tried using the sign on the police box's door which says: "Free for use of public", but it proved to be too small to work.
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The main reason you have only a few ounces of printed junk mail in the box outside your door, not a ton, is that printing and shipping this kind of mail costs money.
Eric Hughes, a cryptology expert with Simple Access, an electronic-commerce consulting firm, conducted his own experiment: at a technical conference, he issued a roll of pennies to every participant and explained that there was a one-cent charge, payable into a box beside the door, each time anyone entered the main room.
ByBox now operates a network of locker boxes around the UK, and deliver box-to-box, rather than door-to-door.
Birchbox, for the uninitiated, is the NYC-based business of Beauchamp and fellow Harvard alum Haley Barna, is a subscription-based service that delivers a monthly box of beauty samples to your door.
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The mailman had tucked the box underneath a bench by the front door.
Mulldorfer testified that in July 1994 she looked in the side door pockets, the console area and perhaps the glove box in her search for credit card receipts.
Booth could see the door that opened to the vestibule that led directly into the president's box.
Leandro Erlich's "Stuck Elevator" (2011) is more complex: A freestanding box, about the size of an elevator shaft, it reveals, through an open door, the elevator's lifting mechanism and, through a gap at the bottom, the interior of the cabin, with a newspaper on the floor.
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