Whirlpool and Maytag are designing appliances (like Personal Valet, a home dry cleaning gadget) for fastidious male homeowners.
Perhaps worst of all to the fastidious and those with appearances to keep up, rubbish chutes will be closed.
He designed hundreds of buildings but was fastidious about which should be built.
The reason for the banks' fastidious approach to new business is simple: profitability.
Penrice's neatly packed, granular bicarbonate still appeals to fastidious customers in Japan, where it puts the fizz in bath salts.
He was fastidious about Terri's appearance, spraying her with perfume and insisting that she be dressed in the latest fashion.
Shaw, who prided himself on fastidious preparation, had ordered a pair of custom truck-pulling shoes from England, with high-friction soles.
Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.
Fanshawe feels our newfound gentility is a function of our more developed society and people should respect our more fastidious sensibilities.
Members will need to be less prissy and fastidious, less prone to faint every time things get rough or go wrong.
Even the cynical admit that Chicago, already an architectural gem, is a prettier city because of Mr Daley's green thumb and fastidious housekeeping.
Life under a government run by the author would be fastidious, incremental and pragmatic: a sort of John Major for the 21st century.
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Kumar, born in Chennai, formerly Madras, India, was fastidious and morose, travelling at least thirty thousand miles a month for work, and seldom socializing.
Undoubtedly, the Obama Administration is too fastidious for such Cold War-style behaviour, but perhaps overt, democratic institution-building assistance is not too much to ask.
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What's more, Japan's shrivelling home market has made it more difficult for firms to rely on the fastidious local consumer as an arbiter of taste.
The Japanese are just as fastidious at home as at play.
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So good, in fact, that fastidious German manufacturers are often clients.
Customers leaving the restaurant in the afternoon praised the "fastidious" chef.
Chinese and Japanese aficionados, whom many in the industry consider to be the most fastidious and discerning of watch collectors, purchase the bulk of the auteurist watches.
Given Rick's choice of friends, it is clear that he would not be overly fastidious about choosing allies -- if he believed their cooperation could save lives.
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Nature could, of course, turn out to be this fastidious.
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Yet when, you might ask, did the press make the transition, now fully evident, from being fastidious about sourcing and newsworthiness to being a shill for innuendo and opportunism?
"The world is full of people who are fastidious about Biblical rules but can't say no to fast food, " says Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.
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Mr Cox, a former television presenter, is loquacious and intellectual, a fastidious dresser with a taste for outsized cufflinks, who spatters his conversation equally with French phrases and Anglo-Saxon oaths.
This futuristic vision of what appears to be a colony for a planet other than ours in colored pencil, ink and sepia wash is done in the calligraphic hand of a fastidious draftsman.
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As the week went on, I felt as if I was in "The Odd Couple": I was messy Oscar Madison, and the woman who owned the apartment was fastidious Felix Unger.
For devotees, it will signal a fond and snuffling farewell, as they bid adieu to a vast parade of clones, Ewoks, Darths, tragic hair styles, noble knights, and strangely fastidious androids.
As we walked to the lake in our heavy boots and clothes, I could feel his irritation at the bugs and the brightness, the squalor of nature in his fastidious eyes.
It was a fascinating insight to how the fastidious musician organises his live band - calling on instruments to drop in and out, while issuing instructions to off-stage technicians and sound engineers.
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