Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before an audience, but with its sets and editing, it manages to stretch the genre's visual limitations. Forgoing the march-time comic pace of the typical sitcom, the show's dialogue includes a mix of throwaway lines, banter, long speeches and TV-techno talk, which provide a particular touch of ER-like authenticity...
...tech company for 18 years. "I know my mom is O.K., and this allows me to focus on doing my job better." Armed with a laptop PC, an all-in-one fax machine and printers, e-mail, conference-calling capacity and other gear, Comes is able to keep in touch with her colleagues and perform her job of developing and analyzing software from her home. It helps that she works for a computer company--her Hewlett-Packard equipment can be updated regularly with the latest features...
...much did GM save? Moraine city officials will not say, but county officials estimate GM is off the hook for $30 million in real estate and personal property taxes. GM also put the touch on the county economic-development authority for a cash grant of $1 million...
...sometimes hard to distinguish the evening news from Hard Copy. No wonder the National Enquirer is up for sale. Circulation and profits have been falling, in part because the rest of the media have become so competitive on stories that in years past none would touch. It is not surprising that many Americans view the media with increased distrust and disgust...
...traditional sports fear they are losing touch with a whole generation. "I can't get my 11-year-old son to sit down and watch a whole football game, and he's the target consumer they want," says Rick Burton, director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. "He'll watch the X Games longer than he'll watch football." Participation rates, which may indicate which sports people will watch, are booming for pursuits like snowboarding (up 33% in 1997 over 1996), skateboarding (up 22%) and fly fishing (up 6%), while they are noticeably soft...