Merely handling aged books often tends to degrade them, a problem that the Boston Athenaeum addresses in its conservation laboratory.
He dismissed Mr. Bakrie's new position — as the chief of a coalition secretariat, which is expected to have considerable influence over making policy — as merely handling "communications".
In this case, publishers set the price and the bookstore merely handles the sale to the ultimate customer, for a set fee or percentage of the transaction.
B6 NEW JERSEY EXPOSURES -- A cluster of anthrax cases in New Jersey seemed to prove officials wrong after they went to pains to assure the public that merely handling tainted mail could not make anyone ill.
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that merely handling the young birds -- as children sometimes do, especially around Easter -- can transmit the disease, which causes diarrhea, vomiting and fever and can be especially dangerous to children.
Urban Decay has a line of Pocket Rocket lip gloss with synthesized pheromones embedded into the ink on the lip gloss dispensers (the idea is that by merely handling the dispenser, you're releasing pheromones into the air), and Marilyn Miglin's earthy Sixth Sense fragrance is due out this month.
The new capital could help Flexport pay for transitioning from a pure-play software company merely handling routing logistics to being an actual freight company.
In the old model, companies would essentially disappear following the conclusion of a sale, merely handling customer problems when they arose.
