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Some 60% of Laura Ashley's UK stores had been refitted and restyled with a new contemporary look while the stand-out performer had been the home furnishings division.
BBC: Laura Ashley returns to profit
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Morris developed the arts and crafts movement as a critique of contemporary capitalism, while Sir Terence simply works to shape the aspirations and buying habits of the modern consumer.
ECONOMIST: Terence Conran: A man for all seasons | The
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While entirely appropriate for a private museum devoted to the contemporary, such intensely orchestrated environments give pause when they spread to more public settings.
WSJ: Turning Up the Volume in Public | By Julie V. Iovine
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The new logo is both contemporary and understated, while the aircraft has a bold red and blue striped tail design.
FORBES: American Airlines Unveils First Facelift In 45 Years
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Inside, a belly dancer performed live, and a DJ spun '80s and contemporary music while Yelp's 2, 000 guests--mostly folks in their 20s and 30s who are fans of the site--danced and ate finger food prepared by San Francisco restaurants.
FORBES: How To Celebrate--Silicon Valley Style
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Fellow Briton Ken Loach's It's A Free World takes a look at illegal employment in contemporary Britain, while Wes Anderson's comedy The Darjeeling Limited sees Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as brothers travelling across India.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Spaghetti westerns head to Venice
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The ground level offers the most casual fare, while the middle floor extends the price and menu into a more expensive, contemporary realm.
BBC: Business trip: Boston
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While a string of temporary sexual encounters might appear glamorous on celluloid, in contemporary reality this fear of commitment and resistance to emotional intimacy might trigger worry in a normal social circle.
BBC: James Bond: How his sex life compares with an average man
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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.
FORBES: 5 Market Predictions for 2012
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While the new iPod touch continues its tradition of being thinner than its contemporary iPhone cousin and has a bigger display and better camera than the fourth-generation model, it is bested in many other respects by the iPhone 5, which of course has much higher hardware costs than are reflected in the subsidized price.
ENGADGET: Switched On: The iPod's modern family