Word: touche
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...glitter and glam of the Barbie gathering at the Marriot Wardman Hotel may have seemed out of touch with the nation's economic woes, but "the Barbie market is very, very strong," says Sandi Holder, owner of the world's sole Barbie-only museum, located in Union City, Calif. And she should know: her biennial Barbie auction did well this year, despite the economy. Holder, who gave up her career as a pediatric intensive-care nurse in order to pursue her Barbie passion, even takes the cake with a world record: in 2004 she auctioned...
...barrel-chested rugby fan, Rajapaksa, 63, will need that common touch to bring Sri Lanka to a true and lasting peace between the island nation's Sinhalese majority (which is mostly Buddhist) and Tamil minority (mostly Hindu). The civil war began in earnest in July 1983, after nearly 3,000 Tamils were killed in several days of systematic anti-Tamil violence. It was the low point of what Sri Lanka's Tamils felt had been decades of official discrimination and military repression in Tamil-majority areas in the north and east. The LTTE took up arms in the name...
...hoping for a similar hit in smart phones. The company has years of experience developing cell phones and handheld PDAs for Hewlett-Packard and other companies. In mid-2007, about the same time that Apple launched the iPhone, HTC started selling its own touchscreen phone. The HTC Touch became popular in Asia, partly because it was cheaper than the iPhone and could be used on a variety of cellular networks. Based on that success, HTC now ranks fourth in market share for smart phones globally, according to research firm IDC. The company, which is about to release a new smart...
...been talking to a few players from all over the country at camps that I’ve attended,” Brown said. “We’ve been ‘Facebooking’ each other and really keeping in touch...
...little real importance in people’s daily lives here. Church attendance is at an all-time low and the only people I have ever seen attend Mass are elderly individuals. The tone of the pamphlet suggests a level of religious dogmatism that is clearly out of touch with the reality of modern Spain...