The forum was full of complaints about how Prime customers were, as one of them put it, "receiving less service for the same money".
Teleflora followed, with a smarmy, suggestive spot that told men if they give flowers for Valentine's Day they will get luck, be satisfied or, as the spot put it, "receive".
Or so I infer, given his stated belief that people should not, as he puts it "receive generous education, pensions, and health care when they haven't done anything to deserve them".
After the "shellacking" (as President Obama so aptly put it) Democrats received this Tuesday, pretty much any Democratic politician who still has a job deserves some kind of award this week.
At best, if you have ever entered a contest to win a prize, subscribed to an online newsletter or simply purchased a product on the Web, you may well have also agreed, as many such fine-print contracts put it, "to receive valuable offers from our marketing partners".
As the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing put it: "Giving, receiving and channelling funds is concentrated in the hands of a few 'giants'".
He's like a lotus flower — he just keeps unfolding". Or, as Durang put it on receiving his Tony last June," it's been a long road". Raised in suburban New Jersey by an architect father and theater-loving mother who read him plays, Durang was 8 when he wrote his first play, a two-pager based on "I Love Lucy". At 13, he co-wrote his first musical.
As Thomas Jefferson famously put it: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me".
And while amnesia was common to those who crossed the mafioso's path, the record should show that, as Brioni's spokeswoman, Alejandra Cicognani, put it, "They never received him in the store".
The local org can then choose to put it out as received or to add on-site video coverage or supplement it with additional reporting.
