Yet the way they are arranged, like stickers for sale in an East Village boutique, bespeaks the overwhelming order of modern industrial economics.
The long-awaited ChiNext stock market kicked off trading with overwhelming buying orders.
But she had not realized that the operation did not have the capacity to handle the overwhelming volume of orders.
As the bright midday sun warmed the black-suited waiters on the terrace, the stoves heated the African-French cooks in the kitchen, and the overwhelming number of orders over-heated the atmosphere for the Tamils stacking plated food at "the pass" (the window between the kitchen and restaurant).
After an unexpected delay due to an overwhelming surge of orders, the stock finally started trading on the Nasdaq at around 11 35 a.m.
That was followed, according to a source familiar with the matter, with an "overwhelming influx of orders" to buy, sell and cancel trades causing Nasdaq's trading software to go haywire.
Yet they went for an overwhelming victory in order to send a clear message to the players: though superstars dominate the game, owners dominate the league.
When both parties in Congress work against the interest of the overwhelming majority in order to protect a tiny elite, it is not surprising that most of the country would return the contempt.
However, the amount of data generated by such simulations quickly becomes overwhelming (on the order of several terabytes per parameter exploration experiment).
The mass sell-off on Thursday was on course to push shares down 20% as trades were halted amid an overwhelming number of sell orders, threatening to wipe off one-third of the company's value in just two days.
