"Dear, " which always looked fine atop a business letter, or a handwritten note, is increasingly seen as archaic and old-fashioned on a computer screen or on a smartphone or mobile device.
But no worries, none of the three robovacuums I tried out--the Karcher RC3000 RoboCleaner , the Electrolux Trilobite and the Roomba Discovery from iRobot --are on the verge of giving an old-fashioned upright a run for its money.
The Pew Research Center estimates that nearly 70% of adult Americans now track some aspect of their health or that of a loved one, whether using an old-fashioned notebook or a cutting-edge gizmo.
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The result, despite the modern setting, is a strangely old-fashioned fable, with a redeeming innocent thrown among evil men.
This is a victory for true feminism, in its old-fashioned sense of a simple assertion of the equality of men and women.
On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
The image that likely appears is of a tweed-clad office worker or an old-fashioned schoolmarm, or maybe a smoky-eyed fashion editor in all black and bondage heels.
Indeed, we've got lots of touch-enabled systems ahead (including nods to models that didn't make the cut), but if you're simply in the market for a good, old-fashioned notebook, we have a few of those to recommend, too.
But it undermined the popularity both of the Concertacion government of President Eduardo Frei, a plodding and uninspired Christian Democrat, and of Mr Lagos, who ran a worthy but old-fashioned campaign, promising voters a fairer society, built gradually through positive discrimination for the disadvantaged, better state education and improved health services.
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Purely as an old-fashioned biography of a somewhat sainted individual, 42 is absolutely entertaining from start-to-finish.
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Baussan was just 23 years old when he was sold the old-fashioned distiller as a piece of scrap metal.
But just in case, a good old-fashioned name change may not be a bad back-up plan, just as insurance.
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There are multiple sins here: an old-fashioned mindset, a lack of integration into the curriculum and evidently no training for the teachers.
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There's Woody, the old-fashioned cowboy with a pull-string who's been the favorite toy of a young boy named Andy for a long, long time.
In professional-service conglomerates, old-fashioned networking is a powerful influence on business.
All it took was an old-fashioned human reading a headline.
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Dessert brings another old-fashioned delight, a Honeycrisp-apple charlotte for two.
Is old-fashioned Atlanticism getting a second lease on life?
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Rival travel writer Mike Parker who has settled in Aberystwyth, also leapt to the defence of the mid Wales town which the Lonely Planet guide labels as "rather stuffy and old fashioned - a wannabe seaside resort".
In this digital world, where mixing cultures could be as easy as pressing a few buttons, it still takes good old-fashioned vision to imagine a sound that reflects an honest expression of what it's like to be from two great histories.
Now, with "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, " Mr. Platt presents the first book-length foray in this direction, providing a compelling alternative account of much-studied events that feels both a bit old-fashioned (in its panoramic view of battles and leaders) yet also very much in step with recent scholarship, placing national stories into global frameworks.
At this time, Thomas says, the Cleveland Clinic's heart surgeons are unlikely to accept a CT angiogram over the old-fashioned, invasive kind as a roadmap for an operation.
He will also have demonstrated that there is a distinctive centre-left programme for Britain, albeit one of a rather old-fashioned sort.
The chapter builds its way to a vertigo-inducing chase across palatial heights in what feels like a good old-fashioned platformer boss fight.
Others prefer a more old-fashioned method like keeping everything written down and in a safe.
On the Geoff Dyer-scale, he is a fairly old-fashioned essayist.
"Religion here isn't a social problem or an old-fashioned embarrassment, it's a wellspring of energy and a source of life-giving vision for how people should be regarded and treated, " he said.
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Non-league Farnborough's plum home tie against holders Arsenal is as good a tie as the old-fashioned Cup fan could hope to see - and Shrewsbury's game at home to Chelsea is almost as tasty a prospect.
It's a hot commodity even to my old-fashioned granny who has never driven a car nor touched a computer in her life.
However, when lawmakers return from their summer recess next month, Capitol Hill will be abuzz with a debate over whether to keep the Web indefinitely tax free--and it boils down to a good old-fashioned American debate over states' rights.
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