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Milk run.
A milk run is a short trip, stopping in a number of places.
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You get in your new Tesla for a milk run.
It was on the chair ride up that I realized this was not going to be a milk run.
Another American official said Iran has been making flights with weapons into Syria that are so routine that he referred to them as "a milk run".
As the counterterrorism official put it recently, "If you land and everybody is out on a milk run, then you get the hell out and no one knows".
Of course, she might bump into a career man making a milk run at the grocery store, so we might want to have her avoid such public places as well.
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Last year, British Vogue announced "The Return of the Ugg Boot", declaring them "our guiltiest fashion pleasure … the sheepskin Ugg is no longer the preserve of a hungover milk run, or the yummy mummy".
However, the Milk Run model has a critical weakness: It doesn't work whenever any variability is introduced; for example, if someone requested a different delivery time or wanted to order something different.
Now he homes in on the current financial crisis with "The Financial Lives of the Poets," a novel that uses one desperate, near-destitute man's milk run to his local 7-Eleven as its jumping-off point.
The Milk Run delivery model thrives when there's a stable route that can be continuously optimized as new deliveries are added; it's direct, efficient and provides reliable sales to the dairy — everyone wins.
This was known as the nightly milk run.
Hence the "milk run," as Mr. Korhonen calls it.
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