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...save on water. You get to choose how much flush you need: one button for a tinkle, another for after a Thanksgiving dinner and perhaps both several times for when you have contractors in the house. Americans have not taken to dual-flush toilets, as they are known, says Toto's New York sales rep, Kurt Raabe, because the early models were substandard. "There were some guys who were having trouble making the 1.6 gallon model work for them," he says. "That's how Toto got its foot in the door in the U.S. It has the best flushing toilet...
...other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation (although bankers and regulators cringe at that phrase; they prefer to call it "appropriate" regulation). In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave a rousing speech at the traditional black-tie dinner in Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor of the City, brashly predicting "an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the City of London...
...appointment. Apparently remembering that networking with any person in any place is any business leader’s best asset, Livingstone put down the Pearl and turned to Maxwell. “And yours?” She asked politely. “My boyfriend took me out to dinner at Sandrine’s on Saturday,” she responded, smiling. “Oh, Sandrine’s. Cute. I think Goldman’s hosting a dinner there Thursday night.” Livingstone twiddled her thumb over her electronic calendar to verify, and nodded...
...Okay," she replied with a weary resignation. "Your tea [dinner] is ready when you're finished...
...props and voice changes in an elegant feat of resourcefulness. Her stagehand, a young woman concealed in black, frequently slipped onto the stage to add a table or a sash. While acting as the former governor of Texas, the late Ann Richards, Smith thanked the help when she put dinner on the table, integrating the stage hand in the performance to indicate Richards’ possession of servants. In a lighter moment, Smith, as English and aesthetics professor Elaine Scarry, plucked a piece of sage from grass surrounding the stage and handed it to an audience member to roll between...