But in doing so, companies like Facebook enter the world of very sharp pencils.
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Amid other mementos in his home are his children's books, pens, pencils and toys.
When 12, 000 Hollywood writers traded pencils for picket signs this week, they took a huge risk.
An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters, not the cameras they want.
No more pencils, no more books, no more clunky desktop PCs or laptops either.
On Nov. 5, Tinseltown's scriptwriters traded their pencils for picket signs over issues of new-media compensation.
Rural schools -- where pencils, desks and books are luxuries -- are hardest hit.
Anyone who pencils in wage inflation in coming years needs to defend his numbers.
He straightens floor mats in the corridors at work and lines up pencils on his desk.
Thousands of small stores and state-owned companies in China make pencils, rulers and staples.
"The next day I started researching pens and pencils and paper and never looked back, " he said.
Conoco decided Reilley would be more useful out on the fields managing pipeline workers than pushing pencils.
Another girl was told to sharpen pencils while sat on his lap in a locked and empty classroom.
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No, Alferness provided no solid numbers, but clearly Google believes the move pencils out in the long run.
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He started by trading for pencils and erasers, but then he traded the pencils and erasers for toys.
At meetings and conferences, filter-tipped cigarettes were standard features on the podium alongside writing pads, pencils and ashtrays.
Matter of fact, I would stick with pencils in general when trying to keep track of all this.
They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
Barlowe still draws with pencils, and he sat in a sunny corner room.
But resist the urge to bring out your sharp pencils and smother the program with traditional CFO-type financial analysis.
Today, 75% of the pencils sold in the U.S. are still painted yellow.
Compton-Rock told the kids to add stationery and pencils to their shopping lists.
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" These items could include "student desks, keys, shoes, belts, books, cell phones, iPods, book bags, laptops, pens, pencils, etc.
If profit is such a horrible thing, let's take the computers out of the schools, and the books, the pencils.
Paus was best known as a watercolorist, although he used oils on occasion and was expert at pencils and inks.
In addition, the deal strongly underscores the need for business owners to sharpen their own pencils to cut their taxes.
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By the age of 17 he had formed a small company to enable him to bid for a contract to supply pencils.
Choose eco-friendly office supplies you can now get everything from pencils made from recycled denim to compostable packing materials.
As yet, nobody has argued that pencils have shifted the income distribution.
You remember those? (Laughter.) Do you know what pencils are?
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