Word: touche
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...corporate travel. Even as the commercial airlines have upgraded first- and business-class cabins and new premium-class-only carriers have emerged to attract business fliers, many executives consider private-jet use preferable to commercial flying because it can be more time-efficient while allowing for a personal touch in business. But as private jets increasingly clog the skies, airline groups and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are demanding that they take on more fiscal responsibility in the booming industry...
...only touch of grandeur was in the security precautions. Venice's famed gondolas were banned from the quays around St. Mark's Square for four days, and the waters off San Giorgio swarmed with what looked like an invasion force of police boats. Police were so omnipresent, their automatic weapons conspicuously at the ready, that tourists and Venetians alike grumbled that the city was under virtual occupation by armed...
...future leaders of the church, and just as the parish comes forth and celebrates with bread and wine and the sacraments, sometimes parents in a community feel this need to pray and say to God, if you want one of my sons to serve you, by all means touch his heart...
After I left Harvard in the 1980s, I did not “stay in touch.” While I truly enjoyed and appreciated my undergraduate years at Harvard, two additional years of eating in the Freshman Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow...
...study and work in the Allston science complex will address critical life sciences questions and contribute life-saving discoveries to our society. The proposed Harvard University Art Museums Allston art center will bring more people—from students and scholars to the curious visitor—in closer touch with an exceptional art collection. Winston Churchill said, “We shape our buildings, and forever afterward our buildings shape us.” All of Harvard’s new facilities in Allston must be designed to help advance knowledge for decades to come...