But then a single kick, touch or refereeing call might bring everything crumbling down.
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"Just by feel and touch ... we call it diving by Braille, but it's just by touch, " he said.
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The GWPC representative who I spoke with (it took me about 45 seconds to make this call and get in touch with the right person there) told me that, had the Harvard researchers bothered to give him a call, he and others at the GWPC could have cleared up a lot of their obvious confusion about how the system works.
His "I am an African" speech from 1996 is rightly celebrated, but Mr Mbeki famously lacked the common touch - he would probably call it the "proletariat engagement" - and was more often mocked for his grandiloquence than praised for his eloquence.
Just tap your forehead to turn it on and touch your ears to start a call.
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Once the action is underway the crowd is kept in darkness, similar to watching a football match under floodlights, but they are kept in touch with match statistics and disputed line call replays on a giant four-sided screen above the court.
Without even having to touch the phone, you can take the call over the headphones.
It also provides maps and turn-by-turn directions and identifies other points of interest, such as hotels, restaurants and attractions, with the ability to call for lodging reservations at the touch of a button.
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The tax alert encourages any S corporation that might be affected to call to be involved or put in touch with other parties.
Send a thank you note and get in touch by e-mail or with a phone call to ask a smart question so they know you're interested.
Soon after that, I left her, but this time I decided to call her every so often and stay in touch with one of her friends, who could fill me in (if only now and then).
Research in Motion is working on a touch-sensitive device, dubbed Thunder, that its engineers reportedly call the AK, for Apple Killer.
Kathy Lennon, who was one of the singing Lennon Sisters and became friends with Funicello after appearing on "The Mickey Mouse Club, " said she and Funicello stayed in touch until a few years ago, when Lennon made her usual call to wish the actress a happy birthday and learned that MS had robbed her of her ability to speak.
One thoughtful touch: If the discussions got too dull, the businessmen could always call home.
Shifting call-centres to cheap-labour countries such as India seems to touch a particularly raw nerve.
It has a touch panel on the top for easy access to all of its features (music, call management...) and an integrated stereo input jack for wired use.
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Any professional service that does not require physical interaction (or pay for very high touch service), and which is complex enough to benefit from more than a phone call, is a good candidate.
And it might have been more accurate (though duller) to call it applied public-choice economics, rather than to come down with a touch of third-way syndrome (not this, not that, but something quite new and wonderful).
Call up some tech recruiters and tell them what you want to do and keep in touch with them.
Odds are, these consultants will have slipped off to their parked car, so they can call a client while glancing occasionally at the far-away playing field to stay in touch.
"What was important was his private conversations -- you know ... everybody say the l'avvocato told me, l'avvocato suggested me, I met the l'avvocato, I had a call in the early morning from the l'avvocato... to be in touch with him ... to be related to him ... was a state symbol for everybody, " journalist Carlo Rossella told CNN.
The Gigabyte T1005M convertible -- or netvertible, as we like to call it -- is much like the T1000, and still has a 1, 366x768 pixel capacitive touch display, USB 3.0 ports, and an eSATA jack.
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