81.   A weekend tinkerer, Yokoi had devised for his own amusement a wooden device that could grip things at a distance, a sort of extension of the arm.

82.   Actually, I wanted two things at the show.

83.   After decades of low-priced predictability, and of being upstaged by pricey perennials, annuals have suddenly become the most glamorous things at the garden center.

84.   All would then do their respective things at her round table and come away exhilarated.

85.   But each year there are new things at Opening Day, such as garlic fries a few years ago.

86.   But I did the same thing at UMass.

87.   But Hare and Eyre keep things at a low, contemplative simmer that never reaches a boil.

88.   But keeping cool is not the most difficult thing at Furnace Creek.

89.   But money may not be the only thing at risk for NBC, a unit of General Electric.

90.   But often the most interesting things at her sales are not the items for sale, but the people at the sale.