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...first met Dave on my third day on the job. Trudging through the snow on my way back to North House after a long day, I fumbled through the channels on my sports Walkman to find nothing but his soft bass voice...
...pieces together to know what they were saying (which really depressed me because I was in France and there were people out there including me who believed that I knew enough French to speak and understand it), I did catch a couple of English words like "fast food" and "walkman...
American firms are also beginning to capitalize on their strong points. "Service is an unappreciated American specialty," says Eric Lesin, president of AAC Systems, based in Pasadena, California, a company that sells computerized cost-control systems for large telephone networks. "Sony can snap out a Walkman, but they can't send you a technician to fix it." The priority given by foreign buyers to quality and service allows American exporters to de-emphasize price cutting, which is one reason export-related jobs in the U.S. pay on average 17% more than jobs that produce goods sold only domestically...
...ably maintains the balance between the literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...
...tourists may rent a tour tape, walkman, and small map for 24 hours at a time, said Melissa Radin, a Cushing representative. Tapes run about 40-45 minutes long and the entire tour lasts about one and a half hours at a normal walking pace, Radin said...