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...challenge is how do we influence a manufacturing process we are unfamiliar with," Ryan said. "[The difficulty is] we only deal with the licensees, not directly with the factories...
...Last year we had girls who played a lot of golf but were unfamiliar with tournament play," says Chan. "This year, experience has turned into our greatest strength...
Finally, these recycled parents are often forced to negotiate an unfamiliar bureaucracy, seeking welfare assistance or legal custody, enrolling kids in school or getting medical care. "The underlying problem is that they don't understand what their rights are and nobody can tell them," says Gerard Wallace, director of the Grandparent Caregiver Law Center at the Brookdale Center on Aging in New York. There is little in law books to help; attorneys and social workers are often unsure how existing laws apply...
...operate the place--Cablevision Systems, through its Madison Square Garden subsidiary--will be hoping that today's judges will be a bit less cranky. After a seven-month restoration that stripped it to its bones and then rebuilt it virtually from ruins, the grand old theater will look strikingly unfamiliar to nearly anyone who has been there before. It will look the way it did 67 years...
...software is built into the add-ons), and you suddenly have a simple way of making "smart" calls, managing three-way calling, call waiting and all the rest. Or, imagine a global-positioning device that automatically interfaces with a database of ATMs so that when you visit an unfamiliar city, you can instantly find a machine that takes your bank card without adding its usurious access fee. Or, if taste buds tingle, it finds the closest dim sum-parlor...