Word: touche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have a lot of money to spend in a short period of time and are desperate both for information and to communicate with lots of people at once. It was the perfect thing for a tired industry. The bridal world hadn't changed in 20 years. Friends wouldn't touch bridal magazines because they were full of icky poufy sleeves. So we thought we would use the Internet to fundamentally change the business of planning a wedding...
...wanted the Knot to deal with the stuff that traditional media companies wouldn't touch. They would never write about a Jewish girl bringing home a Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...
...early in the first half when his strike to the far post found the net. “They played a square ball,” Hoff said. “The kid mishit it, and I just intercepted it about 25 yards out and took a good first touch and shot it lower-left corner.” Fittingly, Hoff’s goal, his second of the season, was scored on Senior Day. Playing in their last regular-season game at Ohiri Field, Hoff and co-captain Adam Hahn, the only two seniors on this year?...
...critics like Lisa Graybill, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union's Texas Chapter. "Preventing harassment and teaching kids to respect each other is important, but having yet another reason for kids' behavior to be criminalized is unnecessary," she says. "It's draconian to ban all forms of touch...
...Somalia is once again the war no one wants to touch. Ethiopia is discovering, as the U.S. has in Iraq, that invasion and occupation are two different things. It is stuck fast in its own East African quagmire, reluctant to stay yet unable to withdraw. This month, in response to a Security Council request, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said sending in a U.N. peacekeeping force was "neither realistic, nor viable" and - appropriating the White House's language - suggested the formation a multinational "coalition of the willing." Ban knows full well that no one is willing. The African Union...