Some industrial holdouts remain in the neighborhood, including a few package-delivery companies and some auto repair and body shops, but the trend is clearly toward the arts, said David Mandl, the chief executive of Meltzer/Mandl Architects.
The company, very small at the time, used scheduled airlines to fly a few packages each day.
Like G.M., Ford is planning to offer a few packages of options, instead of allowing customers to check off dozens or even hundreds of items.
The sleek and elegant shop, with gleaming brass chandeliers, was redone in the 1970's and still carries a few packaged goods for the convenience of shoppers.
He was seeking the perfect place to leave a two-gallon paint bucket with a modest treasure trove: a waterproof brass match case, a few packages of field rations, a set of camping utensils, a log book and a pencil.
Enter three business-minded gentlemen from Colombia, one of them named Pablo Escobar (Mauricio Mejía), whose argument is that, since Barry is so often, you know, in the neighborhood, why not fly a few packages back to America on their behalf?
Calls to a few packaging companies were not returned, and calls to several others were returned by people who refused to talk — even after the Haggler explained that they were about to hit the clamshell lottery.
One local news station reported on 3 December that Aaron Elswick, a neighbor of one of Farook's mother, recalled hearing yet another neighbor say – in Elswick's words: "She had noticed that they had, I guess, been receiving packages, quite a few packages within a short amount of time.
At the end of my shopping spree, I've got a handful of chilies, a few packages of papadums, some kaffir lime leaves, a pound of red lentils, a few more jars for the ever-expanding shelf in my kitchen I call Spice World, a nice-looking cauliflower, a bag of cashews, and ginger, garlic and turmeric.
When I joined him one day at his office at Philip Glass's studio — he works in a soundproofed interior room surrounded by high-end digital equipment, a few packages of dried seafood from Chinatown tacked to a corkboard for color — he was working on a section of his violin concerto, writing parts for the marimba, the strings, and the piano.
As I stuffed a few packages into my patient's pocket, I realized that in the busy day-to-day pursuit of becoming a good doctor, I had telescoped in on the clinical details, neglecting my once-cherished ideal to embrace the social and economic aspects of health care.
