Word: toeing
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...belt, Quinn is digging deeper into the heart of the country, with a new location opening next month in Dallas. In addition to his hipster suits, Quinn offers up all the accoutrements one needs to be respectably attired. Think wildly patterned neckties and pocket squares, colorful cashmere turtlenecks, chisel-toe shoes and even umbrellas. As a head-to-toe look, it's sure to draw attention...
...pretty unconvincing, to put it bluntly, much more so in the face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Even the gestures seem to be giving the wrong message, as when Abe last week allowed his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to reinstate 11 of 12 members banished last year after voting against former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...
...home, with a yard for the kids, gives Lakemba a transient disposition, says Conlon. Yet, as in many parts of Sydney's western suburbs, what was a dull main street a decade ago has become lively. On any day along Haldon Street, you'll see women covered head-to-toe pushing prams, restaurants that are busy around the clock and clothing stores bursting at the seams...
...Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for the Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott," he says, or other big chains such as Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power...