Foil-wrapped chocolate eggs are another item I consider an all-season refrigerator staple.

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Mr. MEAD: Well, I guess, whatever the object is, or the item, I always try to re-envision it as two or three other things.

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"It's one last look at my 50-item checklist that I've looked at for weeks and weeks and weeks, " he says smiling.

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With respect to the line-item veto, I actually -- I think there's not a President out there that wouldn't love to have it.

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Headphones have become a fashion item (or so I am reliably told - and I only hope I've bought the right brand for younger son this Christmas) and HMV is now the market leader in this increasingly pricey ear-ware.

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But I am willing to have a serious conversation on the line-item veto issue.

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One item his collection no longer includes is that Java map I liked so much--that's mine now.

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The main item today is a mid-afternoon conference call with an investment committee on which I sit.

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But I have to say, I like living in a world where so conspicuously useless, conceptually flawed and commercially unlikely an item as the Stealth-X can prosper.

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