And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.
The trouble is nobody is inspired to get up Monday morning because their job offers free soda in the vending machine.
Of course, the logical way to avoid feeling like a sloth is not to feast on greasy fast food with a dessert of candy from the vending machine.
Its competition now being the movie vending machine company Redbox, and online streaming offered by by Netflix and Hulu, Blockbuster is going in a direction that has little need for stores.
The vending-machine industry, however, wants a slower transition.
The hours of killing time before riding over to the hall, the putrid vending-machine meals on the run, the way-too-early-in-the-morning vans to the airport -- the dreary parts all become more than worth it when, for an hour or so, the singers can once again personally deliver a bit of happiness to the audiences who still adore their music.
Plenty of ink has been spilled describing and lamenting this phenomenon, focusing on perceived outrages like the three-story Doritos vending machine and the ever-increasing price of hotel rooms.
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The prince also unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit before speaking to four year 11 boys who had campaigned for fair trade products to be included in the school's vending machine.
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On the appointed day I went to a hotel ballroom and examined the company's compact vending machine.
The rule also extends to vending machine operators who own or operate 20 or more vending machines.
In 1988 CBS shyly placed a Coke vending machine in the faculty lounge in a short-lived high school drama called TV101, keeping it in the background.
Players trek through the game as Edgar, a vending machine toy in search of his owner.
Double clicking on an icon of a newspaper vending machine next to the moving copy takes readers to an October 29 press release.
From the outside, the device looks a little like a vending machine with a really cool touchscreen and no windows.
And to add another layer to the festivities, Chanel brought in a vending machine from which guests could insert a gift card and choose a single product, including nail polish, lipstick and eye shadow.
There is a mad race today to equip our credit cards and our cell phones to act as credit devices, allowing us to merely wave our credit or debit card or smart phone at a vending machine to have it deduct the price of the object from our bank account or add it to our credit card account.
Several pharmacies provide a needle exchange service in the area, but North Wales Police wants to providing a vending machine for registered addicts to collect needles, and to dispose of old ones safely.
Later that morning, Williams and Calloway used the second victim's debit card to buy snacks from a vending machine, police said.
Vending-machine makers had also demanded changes after discovering that the electrical properties of some proposed coins, important for distinguishing between them automatically, were too alike.
Google is criticized because services like Google News provide the sorts of stories that in another era you needed to feed change into a newspaper vending machine to get.
Indeed, when reformers made it illegal to sell gin without a license, gin sellers responded with the "puss and mew, " a bit of mechanical fakery masquerading as an 18th-century vending machine.
That instant coffee I was forced to buy out of a vending machine (see how I suffered?), also not deductible: you cannot deduct the cost of meals that are not part of inpatient care.
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