Los Angeles-based TOMS shoes fulfills its commitments by donating a pair of shoes to the underprivileged for every pair a paying customer buys.
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Mr. MINTZER: You'll find them in virtually every pair of ear buds attached to a teenager in the United States that allow iPods to walk down our streets.
That direct-from-manufacturer model allows the Warby crew to keep costs down and donate one pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair that it sells.
Since its founding in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, TOMS has matched every pair of TOMS shoes purchased with a new pair given to a child in need.
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Warby Parker is doing for global vision what TOMS Shoes did for bare feet: For every pair of eyeglasses the company sells, it gives a pair to someone in need.
Every pair of glasses is still designed and produced in the latest Mykita Haus in a quiet residential area of Berlin's Mitte district and much of the company's success is based on word-of-mouth, its founders say.
Poole, who mostly works in business class, says she buys a new pair every three months.
The company's mission is uncomplicated: It gives a free pair of shoes to a child in need every time it sells a pair.
The human genome project itself, which was the enabling factor of this revolution, was perfectly exponential with the number of base pairs being sequenced doubling every year and the cost per base pair coming down by half every year.
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Gambhir soon burst into life and the pair dispatched every loose delivery, their running between the wickets was exemplary.
His father was a grocer and small-time landlord, but the family was so strapped the old man wore the same pair of underwear every day, washing them each night.
You wouldn't immediately think of the ear's cochlea as an energy source, but MIT knows that every mammal effectively has a pair of very small power plants because of the ionized environment.
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The leading actors, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, barely put a foot wrong, although the story is crammed with wrongness and awkwardness of every kind the pair of them trying and failing to rekindle old desires, for instance, on the floor of a cheap motel, or the unforgettable sequence in which she dances, badly, to his tortured singing on a cold night.
"Don't try to have a different outfit or pair of shoes for every day, " she says.
Having found the magic every woman dreams of, a pair of jeans that fits all four of them perfectly, they vow to share them long-distance during their first summer apart.
Parents can customize control settings, from capping the amount little Jimmy can spend on toys in a month or receiving emails to approve or deny the charge every time Jenny picks up a new pair of earrings.
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No one has done a perfect job creating cocktails that taste good every time, much less drinks that always pair well with food (though several hypotheses on the subject were shared).
The pair have performed their burrowing task almost every day since they got to New York to help.
The pair are estimated to dance around one another every 100 years.
In her adopted hometown of Coral Springs, Florida, she's assembled a team that includes a naturopathic doctor, a cook ("because it's just me and Tessa, and she wants mac 'n' cheese every night"), a nutritionist, and a pair of therapists who stretch her for two hours post-workout.
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Every time you buy an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball there's a good chance you're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
David May, director of global marketing at Goldman Sachs, argues that whereas firms can control almost every aspect of the brand of, say, a soft drink or a pair of shoes, in financial services the brand depends heavily on the people who are employed by a firm.
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It orbits one of a pair of stars 450 light years away, in the constellation Lacerta, circling its host every few days.
Not every NFL coach is sniveling at the idea of ditching his sideline sun visor for a Windbreaker and a pair of mittens.
My point is, every time we drove through Kittery, Maine, I walked into the Columbia outlet looking to buy a pair of gloves.
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Every time somebody in Europe or the U.S. buys an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball, there's a good chance they're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
Internet issues aside, both the 7GP and 8GP were rather smooth and quick when doing every-day tasks such as opening up apps and swiping between pages -- which is likely due to the pair feeding off of Google's Project Butter.
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