"People come in with a stack of receipts for us to tally, but often it all comes to $1,000," sighs Grant Thornton partner Thomas Ochsenschlager.
"The clients who pay us way too much are the ones who keep certificates in a safe deposit box and come in with a stack of 1099s," says Stives.
The baby-back ribs come in a stack sweet, hot, charred, and far from lean.
In the frenzied days before an important show of his work in New York, Mr. Choe gave an interview to the online magazine Fecal Face: "Anyways, right now my house looks like those crazy people's house when they die, and the police come in a year later and the trash is stacked a foot deep and everything smells like milk and furry meats".
His confidence in the ranking doesn't come from a stack of degrees in art history (though he has read a lot on the subject).
Steppingstone or family legacy, the two-family comes in a variety of configurations: the stacked row houses with front stoops that have anchored inner-city neighborhoods since post-colonial times; the side-by-side wood-frame house with shared front porch and, perhaps, aluminum siding of the 50's and 60's, the suburbanesque duplexes of more recent development.
If Vice President Al Gore is to win the presidency, the winning votes must now come in stacks of already disputed ballots in two counties.
His confidence does not come from a stack of degrees in art history.
For some companies, however, their technical debt ends up becoming a very significant limiting factor to the point of being a competitive liability, as other companies can come in with a more nimble technology stack that is easier to maintain, faster to deploy or that scales more easily and less expensively.
