Once a hallmark of Saks Fifth Avenue, the solicitous salesperson is now as distant a memory as pillbox hats.
The weakening in the U.S. labor market and on onslaught of discussion surrounding what the Fed might do beyond the completion this month of QE2 has set the yen up once again as a safe haven with investors realizing that monetary tightening in the U.S. remains as distant a speck on the horizon as it does in Japan.
At that time, cloud was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity.
Catching a distant glimpse of a star professor is not the same as being taught by him.
Scientists observing a distant galaxy catch a black hole in the middle of destroying a planet larger than Jupiter.
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The sea offers space, a view to a distant horizon, a physical perspective less oppressive than hard-edged close-up urban architecture.
In a distant corner is a row of airport shuttle busses.
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Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
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Somewhere on the property or at a distant station, a bell rang--plenty of time for you still to grab some goodies, raid the fridge, use the bathroom and be on your way before the rent-a-cops arrived.
Sporting KC is a distant third, with a nearly 4% shot at winning the cup.
My guess is that gray hairs dominate this group and harken back to a more distant past for a less-than-objective way of deciding who plays this year.
Mr Garnham said that in many cases, finding a local police station that was closed was more frustrating than having to contact a more distant station where a response would be assured.
For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life here and in a totally different way.
This can be the year that financial health becomes less of a distant hope and more of a realistic goal.
Premise: that the moon is really a disguised spaceship from a distant star that, after a botched mutiny, has sat dormant for 50, 000 years, its crew having abandoned ship for Earth.
And people can change their mind: Just ask Howard Dean, who went from being a clear front-runner in the Democratic primaries to being a distant third in Iowa in a matter of weeks.
The Finn, who has not topped the podium in five races, did his best to keep his car on the racing line but qualified in a distant sixth - more than a second adrift of Hamilton.
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Here, it is a very distant second, with a mere 14% share to Gillette's 73%, says Information Resources.
Sony and Nintendo pretty much have it locked up now, but Sega Enterprises could come out of a distant third place to give them a serious challenge.
The Liberal Democrats, a coalition between the distant heirs of a once-great governing party and more European-style social democrats, have not yet made the same jump to the radical middle.
Given what's happened to the U.S. music business since--slumping sales every year since they peaked in 1999--it all seems like a distant world now, with Yetnikoff a relic of that bygone era.
Europe is a distant third because it is not yet a single market.
In truth, Fellowes is a wildly insightful writer about human emotion whose understanding of what makes people do and feel as they do brings up Somerset Maugham in a distant sense, and Jay McInerney in a more modern sense.
Her money would probably be managed in a distant city where the bank was headquartered by a portfolio manager she would never meet.
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As said, currently Rackspace is a distant second in market share for Infrastructure As A Service, a business that will most likely see margins squeezed.
"Light coming toward us from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of a lump of matter in the middle, " explained Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh.
Was Pope Benedict able to erase the perception that he is a distant academic or is he now seen as a warm and affectionate, grandfather-like figure, much like his predecessor?
Back in 1987, before the PalmPilot was even a distant glimmer on the horizon, Kaplan, then a computer scientist working for Lotus Corp.
If he has a meeting at one of his more distant restaurants, a return trip by car can take up a whole day.
Dell remained a distant third in the server market market, despite a sales surge that pushed its share of worldwide server sales to 14.8% from 13.1% during the year-ago period.
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