Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holiday cliche; melodies that many balletgoers already know by heart. Every section shines with perfection, from the lilting flutes to the fluid strings to the variety of percussion instruments. In addition, the children's choir (who appear during the dance of the Snow Queen and King) adds a delightful touch...
...settled, it is time to unlock the true power of on-line shopping. Sure, shopping on-line allows you to forgo trips to the mall, long holiday season lines and the aggravation of popular products being out-of-stock, but you are also forced to forgo the ability to touch and examine the products you buy and the convenience of bringing such products home as soon as the purchase has been made...
When Giannini died at age 79, his estate was worth less than $500,000. It was purely by choice. He could have been a billionaire but disdained great wealth, believing it would make him lose touch with the people he wanted to serve. For years he accepted virtually no pay, and upon being granted a surprise $1.5 million bonus one year promptly gave it all to the University of California. "Money itch is a bad thing," he once said. "I never had that trouble...
...Touch-Tone Telephone...
...relentless pace. It did, of course, and Walton hit the road to open stores wherever he saw opportunity. He would buzz towns in his low-flying airplane studying the lay of the land. When he had triangulated the proper intersection between a few small towns, he would touch down, buy a piece of farmland at that intersection and order up another Wal-Mart store, which his troops could roll out like...