Some 1, 200 Rubbermaid plastic gewgaws like 45-cent ice cube trays are gone for now.

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He struck licensing deal after deal, rolling out watches, T shirts, jeans and other gewgaws emblazoned with L.A. Gear's name.

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Worse, travelers wasted 427 million aggregated hours fretting over the purchases of pointless doodads, knickknacks, tchotchkes, gewgaws and dust gatherers.

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Even the little discoveries--silly gadgets and gewgaws like a cell phone that can tell you if you've got bad breath--promise to affect our daily lives in interesting ways.

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Each quarter they pick up to 80 items to pass along to 100 consumer product companies, and each client gets the same collection of 20 gewgaws, delivered in a box.

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By technology here we do not mean just shiny electronic gewgaws: we mean all of the new knowledge that pours into the world each year about how we can do things better.

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For the first time in 30 years, Rubbermaid is changing the utilitarian design of its water pitcher, adding a swoosh-like handle and a rubbery bottom-half to match a new line of kitchen gewgaws.

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For the first time in 30 years, Rubbermaid is changing the unadorned, utilitarian design of its water pitcher, adding a swoosh-like handle and a rubbery bottom-half to match a new line of kitchen gewgaws like butter dishes and pepper shakers.

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Police officers like gewgaws.

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