• Visa and several large banks are testing mobile-payment programs that allow consumers to make contact-less payments with an existing smartphone equipped with a special chip card and antenna.

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  • Hunsaker and his team of investigators created a fictitious disgruntled employee named Jacob to make e-mail contact with Kawamoto.

    NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

  • With Real struggling to impose themselves, the visitors went close again and were unfortunate that Pjanic's teasing free-kick was closest to centre-half Cris, who failed to make proper contact inside the six-yard box when any significant touch would surely have found the target.

    BBC: Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon (agg 1-2)

  • Make an impact - eye contact, no distracting pens!

    BBC: Gold dust - and no distracting pens!

  • They include - a girl with ill-fitting teeth braces, a man with hiccups, and a lady who was unable to make contact with her son - because he was at the pub!

    BBC: Ambulance plea to beat timewasters

  • The ostensible reason is to help Mexican-American servicemen make contact with relatives living in Mexico.

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  • Commercial banks can sometimes be persuaded to take equity stakes in microlenders, partly to make contact with up-and-coming small businessmen with a sound credit history.

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  • Electing to tackle the Honduran's cross with his legs, the normally reliable Jaaskelainen - who had pulled off a fine save from Defoe only moments earlier and was again under pressure from the England man - failed to make contact and the ball rebounded in off his standing leg.

    BBC: Jermain Defoe and Roman Pavlyuchenko

  • This should make it easier to contact Phobos-Grunt in future.

    BBC: Signal picked up from Russia's stranded Mars probe

  • Once the interviewer greets you, make eye contact and offer a palm-to-palm handshake that is not too strong and not too weak.

    FORBES: Interview Body Language Mistakes That Can Cost You The Job

  • The RFL match review panel ruled that Fa'asavalu dipped into the tackle - and although Bailey did make contact with his head, it was with his shoulder and not an elbow or forearm and therefore was not illegal.

    BBC: Leeds' Diskin cleared over tackle

  • Spain defender Joan Capdevila wasted a good chance shortly after the restart, failing to make contact with a Carles Puyol flick-on.

    BBC: Netherlands 0-1 Spain (aet)

  • In the papers, she claims that candidates are required to carry out regular canvassing in a ward and make contact with 300 individuals by door-step or telephone canvassing each month.

    BBC: Anna Dyer

  • However, the man closest to it was defender Jlloyd Samuel, playing in an unfamiliar left-midfield role, who appeared in the six-yard box but could not make contact, which rather summed up Bolton in the first half.

    BBC: Bolton 2-0 Sheff Utd

  • The true promise of Google Talk--and the company's likely goal--is to eventually provide full telephone capabilities and to make a user's Google login his primary point of contact, on- or offline.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In-person interviews offer rare networking opportunities, where face-to-face contact can allow candidates to make a human bond that can lead to other things.

    FORBES: The Innovation That Could Make Most Job Interviews Obsolete

  • With the driver's seat adjusted to accommodate my 6-foot-1-inch frame, I struggled to make contact with the screen buttons, which are incidentally quite small and a little fussy.

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  • Interestingly, they made the same claim about the original law even though it required police officers to make little more than eye contact before launching a full-blown inquiry into someone's immigration status.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One oft-cited myth about Japanese, that they rarely make eye contact, is not really true.

    ECONOMIST: Why the Japanese want their robots to act more like humans

  • Ma-Kalambay bounded off his line but failed to make contact with the ball as Smith arrived on cue to plant a firm header into the net from 12 yards and hand Orient a shock lead.

    BBC: Swansea 1-2 Leyton Orient

  • In an interview with a Melbourne radio station 3AW, Rhys Holleran - whose company Southern Cross Austereo owns 2DayFM - said his staff had tried several times to make contact with Mrs Saldanha and another nurse at the King Edward VII's Hospital to get their permission to use the prank conversation before it was transmitted.

    BBC: DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian

  • It's the ejector seat, however, that will really catch would-be thieves attention, self-armed and rigged to go off if unapproved cheeks make contact (as shown in the video below).

    ENGADGET: Ejector seat-equipped B.O.N.D. bicycle doesn't expect thieves to talk, it expects them to fly (video)

  • For the photographers themselves, work like this can be more liberating than shooting magazine covers, which with few exceptions (W, for one) come with lots of rules: the subject must make eye contact, must be smiling, must be conservatively made-up, etc.

    FORBES: Terry Richardson Shoots Jessica Stam On Mercedes-Benz A-Class

  • Their standing orders make clear that any unauthorised contact with the press is a hanging offence - well perhaps not hanging, but their Chief Whip has cheerfully gone on record saying that anyone who strays is liable to be dropped from the group.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Donald Dewar's speech

  • Despite that, Razzaq looked out of sorts when he failed to make contact with four balls from Bond before lashing one high over mid-wicket which landed on the roof of the Sir Garfield Sobers pavilion.

    BBC: New Zealand beat Pakistan in last-ball T20 thriller

  • The crew couldn't make contact with the landing strip at Goma on what was then the Rwanda-Zaire border.

    BBC: Part Three - France and the World

  • At Bi-Rite, the beloved San Francisco market, employees are urged to make eye contact if a customer is within 10 feet and to say hello within 4.

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  • Liverpool exercised almost total domination in the early exchanges, with Xabi Alonso shooting over and Keane wasting a glorious chance after 22 minutes when he tried to over-elaborate in front of goal from Gerrard's cross and failed to make any contact.

    BBC: Atletico Madrid 1-1 Liverpool

  • Dr. Friedman surveyed the room, clearly attempting to make eye contact with the closest suspect, though unfortunately that suspect was Janey Filch, wall-eyed and so shy she looked ready to faint.

    NEWYORKER: Playdate

  • Chuck Robel, one of Silicon Valley's leading accountants, has five contact telephone numbers and an e-mail address on his business card to make sure that his clients can get hold of him.

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