The main architect of Starbucks' expansion is seen as the best person to lead a return to the firm's roots as a specialist coffee shop with a local touch.
Back on shore, the two-room Maria Mitchell Aquarium might be overlooked unless your kids are excited to see local fish and touch hermit crabs.
Because remaining in touch with local parties and local communities is crucial to staying in government.
The charity can also put you in touch with local rape crisis centres or other services for ongoing support.
"We contact each other regularly and need to be in touch with local authorities and clients all the time, " she says.
Seriously, head to your local tech retailer and touch the thing.
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"We are in regular touch with local authorities about what might be available and are grateful for the contribution they make to the Prison Service, " she said.
That is the area where, recently, several expatriates have opened smaller boutique hotels that provide what the larger resorts do not: a personal touch, local flavour and key emphasis on the environment.
In the past, when you moved house, you could lose touch with your local chapter.
As always, FEMA officials are in touch with their local counterparts in anticipation of a storm like this.
"What we are trying to do is get in touch with all local businesses to develop a whole series of case studies about what the costs are, in true terms to them, so we can use that to lobby the county council, " he said.
Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty said he had already been in touch with the police and local councillors.
That could result in local officials alternating use of battery-powered touch-screen machines with paper ballots.
"Local councils tend to be much more in touch with these young people who are facing long-term unemployment, " he said.
"We have local customers who want to add a special touch to a big event, out-of-towners who want to enjoy their vacation in style and business travelers who use the cars to entertain clients, " Short says.
"We want to touch every practicing lawyer, in a local way, a national way and an electronic way, " he says.
Kane grandly sashays around the living room, as Ruth tries to get in touch with her first love, a local boy she adored many decades earlier.
"We have been in touch with Defra and also with a local pest control company, which is due to visit... to give advice on the action we should take, " the playgroup added.
"The proposals from the Tory and SNP coalition to press ahead with cuts in teachers, adult education and failing to invest properly in road repairs shows just how hopelessly out of touch they are with the priorities of local people, " he said.
Buy into local ventures that you can understand, producing items you can touch or services that you can personally use and run by people you know and can influence.
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"We have always wanted the 2010 FIFA World Cup to touch the lives of as many South Africans as possible, " local organizing committee boss Danny Jordaan says.
The local newspaper delivers the hometown paper to deployed soldiers so that they can stay in touch with home.
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Employers should stay in touch with state and community health authorities and align their guidelines according to local conditions, Locke added.
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The new finance minister, Teresa Lubinska, exemplified the government's uncertain touch last week by blithely dismissing foreign hypermarkets as unwelcome investors, and boasting of her work in local government to frustrate their expansion.
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