The worn-down, travel-weary businessperson is looking for proximity, convenience and comfortable amenities in an airport hotel.
"Men often wear scuffed or worn-down shoes that subvert the effort they spent on the rest of their appearance, " he writes.
With sections of sand, solid rock and even worn-down bridges that drivers must inspect before crossing, the 200km road takes nearly 24 hours to drive.
Left untreated, bruxism can lead to worn-down, flattened or chipped teeth.
Haig touched her chin, black spikes like a worn-down hair brush.
Since then, the trend for oversized, pared-down cashmere worn over fancy skirts, shorts or trousers has gathered apace.
Yet men's fashion designers and fashion magazines have been showing button-down shirts worn with suits and ties in recent years.
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By mid-December, the anti-Tebow resistance was worn down to the contrarians and the clueless.
The 60-year-old retired pharmacist had worn down the joint skiing and hiking and working on his feet for years.
In short, the current path is unsustainable and the only course to prevent the U.S. from following down the well-worn path of the PIIGS debacles is to cut spending, dial back the social guarantee escalations, reduce the tax burden on businesses, flatten the burden on individuals, and live within our means.
The SEC said it suspended trading to tamp down the well-worn scamster trick of buying publicly traded shells, launching them on an eye-catching new trajectory like green energy or social networking with a blizzard of press releases, and dumping millions of shares of stock on mullet investors before closing up shop.
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Deciding when to walk from a worn-out, existing portfolio company vs doubling down is a tough choice.
There's a beauty to a well-worn cookbook that's been handed down from generation to generation with notes in the margins.
Button-down collars usually work best when worn with a pair of slacks, or under a crew neck sweater.
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And some of the graves were marked by nothing more than gray, worn down rocks that poked up in a semi-circle like neglected, decaying teeth.
Yes, we're aware CCFL displays eventually wear down and lose their brightness, but either there really is a huge difference in CCFL and LED, or the 8-month old MBP we tested against in the photos had really worn down.
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Several of them looked as if they had walked out of an X-Files convention: long hair, plaid flannel shirts and baggy pants worn much further down than pants were meant to be worn.
But he was worn down by the formidable Mexican, and he never recovered consciousness after a horrendous 12th-round knock-out.
No matter how many worn-out items break, no matter how much our out-of-date machinery slows us down, no matter how many people tease us for clinging to fax machines over email, I will keep this factory going as-is.
The public's prudishness about the body has finally been worn down, he asserts, by Hollywood gore, television shows like CSI and museum displays presenting polymer-preserved dissected corpses.
If you are worn down by the cold enthusiasm of professional sports, the joyless grind through the schedule and the perfunctory fist-bumps of millionaires, here is a team unafraid to let their personalities slip through, and let a game feel like a game.
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