Word: buttoned
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...they called the lawyers. After hiring Perkins Coie LLP, the Seattle law firm that helped Amazon.com patent its one-click buying button, Cereality sent warning letters last summer to the Cereal Bowl and Bowls, admonishing them to avoid using similar-sounding product names and slogans. Cereal Bowl fought back, sending its own warning letter to Bowls and a defiant reply to Cereality. Sensing the competitive crunch, the Cereal Cabinet shuttered and switched to Jamaican food. In March, Cereality raised the stakes, suing yet another start-up, Ohio's Cerealicious, for trademark infringement...
...grand masters like Cannes winner Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) or Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Kandahar), but his unblinking, gritty style is quickly turning him into the country's most courageous social filmmaker. Poverty, censorship, the justice system, women's rights - the subjects he tackles read like a list of hot-button issues guaranteed to tick off the authorities. In his 1995 feature debut The White Balloon, a little girl out to buy a goldfish is preyed upon by hustlers trying to separate her from her cash. The Circle (2000) explores the intertwining stories of different women, all victims of a sexist...
...biggest complaint was that the LocationFree?s virtual on-screen remote didn?t have the right buttons to control my cable box. There was no List button, so I could not access a single show that I had recorded earlier. Also noticeably absent were the back-skip and live-TV buttons. My viewing options were basically limited to live...
...Snow will be an irreverent presence in a West Wing so formal that button-downs are considered declasse. When he was speechwriting director, Snow once was seen wearing overalls in the complex. (A gag gift someone gave his team, he says.) On the website for his radio show ("The Power of FOX. The Connections of Snow"), the "By Popular Demand" section has a link labeled "Tony Sings! Listen to Tony's, um, unique rendition of the Spongebob Squarepants theme song...
...World War II history. Even as he maintains his distance from Japan’s militaristic past, Koizumi has continued to visit Japan’s shrine to its war dead, generating criticism throughout Asia. “Japan wants to press the ‘reset’ button,” Schieffer said, adding that it would be up to the nations who suffered under Japanese militarism to accept this sincerity and find the appropriate way to move on. On issues of security in Asia, Schieffer said that, looking into the future, he saw no reason...