Residents recall that it sits on land once occupied by a company whose odd assortment of products included gopher poison.
Technology companies, whose tangled assortments of patents make them prime targets for patent trolls, are among the bill's supporters.
When I get to the building where I work, I pass, on the way to my office, a cafeteria whose display features an assortment of doughnuts, brownies, croissants, and pastries.
But the ear-splitting sounds of military jet takeoffs that kept residential development at arm's length from the runways also made the Calverton property attractive to a motley assortment of industries whose plans would never get past the drawing board in residential neighborhoods.
The book on which his editors similarly gambled only occasionally approaches the excitement of high-stakes wagering; Martinez is at his best describing the motley assortment of characters whose livelihoods whether won or earned depend on the orgiastic money pit that is casino culture.
Meanwhile, as he wanders downtown Roslyn, Mr. Epstein is still greeted by an assortment of people whose lives he touched.
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Kerry Kittles took the floor tonight in a Nets uniform, albeit a practice uniform, lining up on the Champion Center court with rookie hopefuls and an assortment of players whose only purpose is to fill out the Nets' summer league roster.
The most fascinating section of this remarkable book deals with the two years Jalowicz spent in this block of flats, lived in by an odd assortment of people, whose foibles, obsessions and greed she meticulously observed.
But Nostalgia moved on to the tourist haven of Miami Beach and Hoy Como Ayer remained in its place, in Little Havana, staking a claim on an assortment of people whose memories have nothing to do with Cuba and everything to do with Miami.
