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...history?the company marks its 100th anniversary this year?Concord has produced timepieces for world leaders and, owing in part to its advancements with quartz watches in the 1970s, has been at the vanguard of engineering. But in recent years, public perception of the brand has veered toward the staid side of traditional. Keen to shed that reputation, Concord has taken a bold step, discontinuing production of every one of its many models, eschewing quartz and focusing all its efforts on the launch of the C1, a high-tech 44-mm chronograph with a 53-piece case. Says Concord...
...kind of potent popular piety inspired by Marian apparitions, a trend in popular Catholicism that had gained momentum in the 20th century. But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid rhythms of modern institutional religious life...
...voters, polls suggest they've been a tonic to his Prime Minister, François Fillon. The most recent polls show Fillon's popularity surging seven percentage points to 57% - a record-setting 19% gap between a French president and his hand-picked prime minister. Fillon was belittled as staid, wonkish and boring during Sarkozy's glittering first six months in power, but now he is enjoying a reputation as a solid, industrious executor of policy who tends to shun the bright lights now trained on the president. Perhaps there's a lesson there for Sarkozy...
...Fire, won out over Reds and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oscar also ignores pictures deemed too weird (i.e., modern) or infra dig (i.e., genre films). In judging movie acting, the Academy is often slow to notice the arrival of talent ready to shake up or reshape a staid industry...
...That's not strictly true. Republicans didn't bother with any such shenanigans. Their overseas supporters are expected to vote by postal ballot in their home states. Republicans Abroad U.K. holds fundraisers and social get-togethers such as the first meeting of its Young Republican branch, a staid gathering where some two dozen fresh-faced professionals and students met up, also on Super Tuesday, in a central London bar. One of their number, banker Allison Bruneau, 28, says she's encountered a view among Britons that supporters of President Bush "drive pick-up trucks" and pine for slavery...