They provided the familiar price point, put it in a familiar looking plastic bottle, but made it just a little smaller giving consumers less liquid while allowing them to raise price on the 2 liter package.
Donovan, one of three guards Pitino made take advantage of the new 3-point line, became familiar with leading a team to the Final Four himself almost two decades later when he coached Florida to consecutive national championships.
"I needed Don to get me out of bed this morning, " he said at one point, according to the person familiar with the situation.
Now, officials at the Swiss National Bank are considering what currency or basket of currencies would replace the euro as its reference point for the currency ceiling, according to a person familiar with the situation.
At that point, say people familiar with the call, nobody raised objections.
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People familiar with the matter point to strategic reasons for the shift: risk diversification after Foxconn's manufacturing glitches last year with the iPhone 5 that resulted in scratches on the metal casings, and Apple's decision to expand its product lines amid growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co.
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Dearborn, Michigan (CNN) -- If the crooked blue staircase, colorful crank and dangling bathtub looked familiar, well, that's the point.
Virtually all of the 100 objects they have chosen will be familiar to readers, some of them to the point of invisibility.
On the main TV monitor, I could watch out the front window of the car, a normal point of view familiar to anyone who has ever played a driving game.
As much to the point, perhaps, natural disaster is more familiar.
People familiar with the discussions said a major point of contention is whether Harlem politicians will have representatives on the new board.
People familiar with the Post's thinking point to the success of the New York Times's recent paywall program, which was introduced about 18 months ago and now has more than 500, 000 digital subscribers.
People familiar with the industry, however, point out that many advisers are too new to the business to have a track record, while the marketing pitch of veterans is being tainted by the lousy returns of the markets in the past decade.
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Be sure to find a knowledgeable agent who is familiar with DC neighbourhoods and can point you in the right direction.
Walking around the space during the display is encouraged, all the better to see something familiar from a new vantage point.
"Those who are familiar with MI5's techniques say the whole point about the way MI5 works is they try to build a rapport with people, " he said.
The calculation is rough and ready, and I come to slightly lower numbers than Allwood and co, but the point is that this measurement uses a unit we're familiar with - us.
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But a CRM solution that works through a familiar email application and provides visibility into the business is really just the starting point.
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At some point in life it is important to get out of your own comfort zone, the things you are familiar with, and to see something new through the eyes of someone else.
New York City officials are shaking up one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's key development priorities, putting off for years the creation of a new neighborhood in Queens' Willets Point and calling first for a large retail center next to Citi Field, said people familiar with the matter.
As if it couldn't get better, as "Linsanity" exploded in Manhattan last week, the news emerged that the point guard, new in town and unsettled at his job, was suffering through that humbling but familiar metropolitan ritual: He was sleeping on other people's couches.
One sticky point for the negotiations between the two airlines has been the deal's potential tax liability, according to the person familiar with the talks.
For this particular Personal Massager, the selling point is its interface with the Handspring Visor, a competitor to Palm's own PDA. The Visor's familiar interface in theory gives the device more flexibility than what the company refers to as more "conventional" devices, allowing the user to program the device more easily than would otherwise be possible.
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