The practice of wearing a jacket and trousers of matching material made by the same firm was still some years away.

ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

It even lacks the near-mandatory matching website for updated material and hypertext links to the vastness of the wider information world.

ECONOMIST: Encyclopedias on CD-ROM

The raw material, in the matching process, is a mass of stated preference: your desire or intolerance for certain traits and characteristics.

NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

The government offered twenty-five-million-dollar matching grants to companies that could devise a way to produce the material domestically, without using enriched uranium.

NEWYORKER: Fussbudget

The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thin material of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor