Word: approached
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...test this, I don clothes one day and head into the textile part of town, which is one of the most lively, entertaining and congested ports on the Mediterranean. Curious as to why everyone else around here is not a naturist, I approach a topless twentysomething woman on the Richelieu Beach who is attired--if that is the correct word--in a microscopic string monokini. Why, I ask her, isn't she over in the naturist colony to "see and be seen...
...there is a fervor in her brown eyes and a drill-to-the-core focus that made her the top female executive at Microsoft until her retirement, at age 40, in 1997. She does not draw a salary for her work with the Gates Foundation. "We have an approach here that is very much based on the enthusiasm the Gateses have," Stonesifer says. "We can cause enormous health improvements rapidly." She talks in terms of saving millions of lives, of improving billions of lives...
...kids to the Internet. Sarah Holloway, Mouse's executive director, says a worker who sweats alongside his boss, pulling cable in a public school, knows that they are after more than a fast buck. Says Holloway: "It is a bonding experience." Rasiej says that "a lot of CEOs approach me and take out their checkbooks. I tell them that's not what I am looking for." He wants brainpower and imagination...
...modern as its approach is, the firm's aesthetic is rooted in the past. "A conversation with Hoefler and Frere-Jones is an instant education, not only in letter design but also in history, fine art, literature and music," says Michael Bierut, a partner at the global design agency Pentagram and a frequent client. Such context is important. Whether it is Sumerian hieroglyphs on clay tablets or cybertext on the Internet, the written word is made up of assembled shapes, and the tiniest details--the contour of a serif, the slope of a curve--can evoke mood and emotion...
...vice-presidential choice. There'd be a few desertions, to be sure, but in general, political strategists shouldn't have a hard time convincing anyone that the time is right to show middle-of-the road voters that there's room in the GOP for social moderates - an approach whose potential benefits far outweigh the risk of leaving a few pro-life extremists high...