Actually, one of my very good friends gave us some gift cards to a local grocery store, and so we're going to go stock up on meat and - which would be nice - and hopefully stock our pantry full of non-perishables.
They were actually really nice -- they offered me food and coffee and the club manager gave me a shirt, which was nice.
This morning in London, GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ), the world's second-largest drugmaker, unveiled a nice-looking but long-awaited drug pipeline.
Group-buying has moved from a nice-to-have to a must-have marketing strategy for virtually all online businesses, and with the recent activity seen in the past few days the pace will only become more rapid.
On the plus side, battery life seems to be very good, clocking in at almost six hours with the standard six-cell battery and about nine with an optional nice-cell model.
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But cross-platform enterprise app development is quickly morphing from a nice-to-have to a gotta-have feature.
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The two higher-priced models feature nice add-ons like a USB port and Fiat's hands-free communications and entertainment system.
From the beginning Ford, now 48, had to shake doubts that he was too inexperienced--even "too nice"--to make the tough decisions that would make Ford competitive with Japanese rivals.
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" 'Punching-above-our-weight' is a nice self-image for small countries, but it is much less important in world politics than being the heavyweights, " said NYU law professor Benedict Kingsbury.
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People -- a lot of folks, they just missed that part. (Laughter.) They were like, hope, change -- (laughter) -- and they thought, nice swearing-in, you got Bruce Springsteen singing. (Laughter.) Everybody is feeling good.
Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.
The rear of the device has that familiar soft-touch feel, which really feels nice in-hand, and offers a bit of traction for those sweaty palm you get while using the device on the elliptical machine.
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The allegation is that he bought works of art - a very nice Monet among other things - and hung them on the walls of his duplex in Manhattan.
Arora: When things go from a nice-to-have to a must-have, you usually see good business effects.
With auto labor negotations a few months away, it's suddenly make-nice-with-the-union time in Detroit.
Sorry, somebody emailed me about that and then I blew it -- nice to see you.
By contrast, retailers woefully confirm that economic adversity has slowed consumer purchase of many nice-to-have items.
French and German responses would have been a nice-to-have but we are unworried about it.
Many thanks for all your messages - nice to know one's thoughts are in such demand!
They are a nice-to-have perceived bonus as Sony showed by including DVD playback capabilities with the PlayStation 2.
And when I graduated, got a job at a big, fancy law firm -- nice salary, big office.
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Private U.S. insurers often cover all, or at least portions, of the cost of many of these NICE-denied drugs.
Ireland are a nice-looking saloon car that, on closer inspection, has large patches of rust all over the bodywork.
Again, it's an intuitive and nice-looking package, but both of these have one major problem: no support from manufacturers.
The Campaign for Real Beauty was retired to the nice-to-have background, no longer a part of driving competitive tactics or growth.
Goss was second overall in the Tour Down Under and also took stage wins in the Tour of Oman and Paris-Nice.
First of all, our Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, is in the house. (Applause.) He's the guy in the nice-looking hat.
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For new products, this could be a nice-looking dummy page for a potential offering, or simply an Adwords campaign that you measure for performance.
Usually such programs are full of nice-sounding but wasteful spending initiatives, as well as tax breaks that have a weak, one-shot impact on the economy.
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