• 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.

    FORBES: Rebirth of a salesman

  • 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.

    FORBES: Rebirth of a Sales Man

  • That was a selling point for photographers Heather Waraksa and Jonathan Mehring, who arrived at Apple's new Grand Central store in New York and, as such, found themselves leaning against a wall, eating bagels in line a half hour later.

    CNN: Doug Gross,

  • The Dragons were caught napping midway through the half as Magnus Lund and Yachvili combined at the front of a line-out for the scrum-half to claim a soft, but well-worked try.

    BBC: Newport Gwent Dragons 8-26 Biarritz Olympique

  • The visitors bristled with intent early on and managed to pin Chelsea inside their own half by holding a high line and getting their full-backs forward at every opportunity.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Everton (aet)

  • While a half-block line of ticket-holding locals formed to one side of the theater's entrance, the other side was mobbed by sign-toting Bradley and Gore supporters -- mostly white and college-aged.

    CNN: Advantage to Gore in showdown at the Apollo

  • We should expect that the strong trend moving through the beginning of 2012 is eventually revised into a straight-ish line probably adding another half a million or so jobs to our 2012 estimates.

    FORBES: ADP Benchmark Revision Adds Over 600K Private Sector Jobs

  • Newcastle made a mess of their own line-out and scrum-half Andy Williams spun out of a tackle near the posts and forced himself over the line to bring the scores to 22-19 with Thomas's conversion.

    BBC: Newcastle 29-24 Dragons

  • But Leinster's pack continued to put Edinburgh under intense pressure in a turgid second half but fumbles just short of the line prevented a couple of tries.

    BBC: Leinster 12-3 Edinburgh

  • So how would an independent Scotland and a newly-independent Rest-of-the-UK split the costs of the northern half of a very expensive new line?

    BBC: Making tracks and political points

  • This time they sprung the scrum-half round the front of a line-out and although he was halted by Luke Arscott, the 18 stone Buxton came thundering up in support before battering through a couple of despairing tackles to score from 10 metres out.

    BBC: Gloucester 39-10 Bristol

  • Dwayne Peel made a break from the half-way line and was well supported by Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, who in turn produced a superbly-timed one handed offload to Doherty, who was charging up the left wing to score in the corner.

    BBC: Clermont Auvergne 15-32 Sale

  • Connacht mounted a sustained assault on the Blues line as the first half drew to a close, Carr again to the fore, but a knock on left the home side's 16-3 lead intact at the break.

    BBC: Magners League: Blues 22-6 Connacht

  • The visitors went in search of a leveller early in the second half and Iriekpen had a header cleared off the line after Luis Rubiales' corner had struck the crossbar.

    BBC: Kilmarnock striker Kevin Kyle

  • Huguette has a signed will, who do you think might be in line to get that half-a-billion-dollar estate?

    MSN: Investigative reporter

  • But when Wilkinson made a handling error on the half-way line, Hodgson collected the loose ball and left his counterpart in his wake to score a vital try.

    BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | English | Sale 26-25 Newcastle

  • Ballymena made a superb start to the second half and Wayne Buchanan was forced into a goal-line clearance to keep out a Garth Scates lob.

    BBC: Lis Distillery 0-2 Ballymena Utd

  • What's more half the questions means half the chance of getting a decent line from the interview.

    BBC: In a bedroom with Madonna

  • Her mother, Carol Downing, 57, was less than a half mile from the finish line when the bombs stopped the race.

    WSJ: Last Boston Marathon Bombing Patient, Erika Brannock, Released From Hospital

  • Scrum-half Farrell received the ball from a line-out just outside the Swansea 22 and scythed through the All Whites pack untouched.

    BBC: Neath 22-22 Swansea

  • They did, however, go through with letting about 35, 000 runners take off from the starting line for a half marathon and shorter races.

    FORBES: Was The Tel Aviv Marathon Really Too Hot To Handle?

  • The confidence of the home side was visibly growing, and Nicky Wroe even went for goal from the half-way line, punting a long range effort beyond the empty Burton goal with Deeney stranded.

    BBC: Torquay 2-1 Burton

  • Paul Legendre, the Newhaven coxswain who led the operation, said his crew of seven volunteers had launched the lifeboat within five minutes of the alarm being raised, but it took half an hour to attach a tow line.

    BBC: Lifeboat (gen)

  • After camping on their line for ten minutes at the end of the first half we managed to get over the line for a hard fought try.

    BBC: Clive Stuart-Smith column

  • England's defence, disorganised and nervous, had led a charmed life and it was no surprise when Mexico pulled a goal back on the stroke of half time when Leighton Baines failed to complete a goal-line clearance and Guillermo Franco pounced.

    BBC: England 3-1 Mexico

  • From the play-the-ball, the Leeds defence was dozing as Atkins, from dummy-half, made a half break and suddenly found himself racing 40 metres to the line for his second try - his 15th of the season.

    BBC: Leeds 6-30 Warrington

  • "Whilst we hope the hearing draws a line under the last three-and-a-half years, we appreciate no sentence could reflect the pain the Handford family have suffered, " she said.

    BBC: Mark Handford

  • Saha, on his 200th Premier League appearance, controlled the ball and struck it low beyond the advancing James after a pass from the half-way line eluded centre-back Younes Kaboul.

    BBC: Portsmouth 0-1 Everton

  • The three and a half year old privately held Yihaodian sells over 180, 000 products on line, and has a strong market share in the online grocery market.

    FORBES: Wal-Mart Expanding In China, Possibly Returning To Russia

  • The U.S. Interior Department has not yet granted the consortium a permit to build the line, which will also require approval from regulators in nearly half a dozen states.

    FORBES: More Green Lights for Google's Mega-Wind Ambitions

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