They become in a sense new people because we think in narratives, we think in stories, we plan in stories, we decide in stories, we dream in stories, we converse in stories.
She said staff had taken lessons in order to be able to converse with customers in Welsh, and they had extended their opening hours to accommodate people leaving the field.
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It was officially announced this month that he was in fact leaving Nike (he joined the Nike-owned Converse line in 2003) for Li-Ning.
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For while a goodly portion of the Welsh population can and do converse in Welsh, the majority have absolutely no idea of the language at all.
On walks all through her life she would converse in imagination with her hero, Benjamin Franklin, explaining to that great inventor the gadgets of the modern age.
They have names like Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) and Brick Top (Alan Ford), and they converse in the artful patois that Ritchie continues to sell as echt.
In the shoe department, a tween in a tutu-looking confection is being helped by her mother, who is standing with one foot in a bright pink wellie, the other in a tatty Converse.
Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.
Sometime in the 1980s, the converse came to rule resorts.
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Interestingly, share repurchases present the converse situation, in which share prices tend to rise when the repurchase is announced, yet companies executing heavy buybacks tend to underperform over the longer term.
High-end street-wear shops throw in a carefully edited selection of Converse sneakers.
Companies that have done it right, she says, include Nike, which invited Converse customers to send in video of themselves talking about their favorite experiences with its sneakers, and Ford Motor 's Mazda unit, which requested photos and video clips from people that creatively show what the company's cars and "Zoom-Zoom" slogan mean to them.
Companies that have done it right, she says, include Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ), which invited Converse customers to send in video of themselves talking about their favorite experiences with its sneakers, and Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) Mazda unit, which requested photos and video clips from people that creatively show what the company's cars and "Zoom-Zoom" slogan mean to them.
He sat in a chair, opened the end table drawer next to him, pulled out a Converse shoe box, the sort of box in which you kept your old photos or Christmas cards, and handed it to me.
In addition, she is launching Lean In meet-ups across the nation, where women will converse with their peers about issues they face as women striving to achieve in the work place.
Converse, bought by Nike in 2003, is doing this in spades.
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Besides the footballs and baseballs, Leather Head recently produced a small batch of peach-basket-era laced basketballs for Converse, and he dabbled in rugby balls after an inquiry from Ralph Lauren.
But that's not where the magic's at -- this software has an uncanny ability to guess what your next word will be, and it actually looks at your prior SMS list (if allowed) in order to "learn" how you converse.
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The converse is also true which means that, in that third year, your spouse can deduct that part of the alimony payments previously included in income.
The interesting thing is the way consumers can converse and collaborate over it easily, bringing in Facebook friends, recording and sending video messages, or starting groups around different topics.
While it's true that economic and social development leads to women having smaller families, the converse is also true -- that the gains that contraception has made possible in women's health make family planning one of the most successful international development stories.
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When I was asked by Ruby Pseudo Consultancy to blog for Converse Ltd. at the Lowlands Festival Holland, what I saw was a case study in how to do it right.
Inadvertently, Mr von Matt had put his finger on something big: that, at least in democratic societies, everybody does have the right to hold opinions, and that the urge to connect and converse with others is so basic that it might as well be added to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The converse can also happen, where further constraining the model via continual refinement can lead it to only work in narrow situations and break down substantially in a broader application.
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