The American habit of being on first-name terms from the start tends to shock.
Germany is not America, where everyone is on first-name terms except in the doctor's surgery.
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Being on a first-name basis with the receptionist at a university does nothing for your admission chances.
When the mortgage crisis first hit, Mr. Cox saw many people individuals he knew on a first-name basis thrust out of their homes, their lives ruined.
It also helps to be on first-name terms with other globocrats.
He was sorely embarrassed when one of his ministers resigned after it had been revealed that he was on first-name terms with Alaattin Cakici, best-known of the suspects.
He was on first-name terms with air-traffic controllers at J.
You will be able to see what cars have proved to be reliable and which ones are prone to make you know your repair shop people on a first-name basis.
He will receive a first-name-only invitation to have dinner at a staff table, which will then quietly appear under the door of one of the other Bobs, and no one will spot the substitution.
Crew boss Mickey Drexler, who Bell and Finnegan talk about on a first-name basis, advisers from Tumi and Henri Bendel have been sources of retail wisdom and reassurance for the upstart.
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As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes.
Huge crowds dressed in red - the colour of his party - cheered and sang as Mr Kenyatta gave his final address in the Uhuru stadium that shares his first name - meaning "Freedom" in Swahili.
It sells single-family homes under the Richmond American Home name to first-time and move-up home buyers.
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And with only seven first-class matches to his name, doubts remain over 26-year-old Beer's lack of experience.
Claudene Christian's father, Rex, and her mother -- who shares her daughter's first name but goes by Dina -- were also at the hearing.
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The 76-year-old from Buenos Aires is the first Pope to take the name of Francis - reminiscent of Francis of Assisi, the 13th Century Italian reformer and patron saint of animals, who lived in poverty.
The England Saxon flanker is the first of Leeds' big-name players to commit his future to the club for next season.
Casey Dulin scored 13 points to lead the Red Foxes (26-7), who have made a name for themselves by winning first-round games as double-digit seeds, advancing to the second round as a No. 13 a year ago and as a No. 10 in 2011.
And the first -- the first recommendation I made is we change the name, the Environment and Public Works Committee.
This year's Stomp will feature Robert Parker ("Barefootin'"), Jean Knight ("Mr. Big Stuff") and Lazy Lester, a Louisiana blues harmonica player whose song--first recorded in the 1960s--lent the festival its name.
Using his distinctive Virgin logo -- first used to brand his record label of the same name in 1972 -- Branson has created companies across a range of industries since the mid-1980s.
His name - the first time a pope has called himself 'Francis' - is inspired by St.
MoMA's decision to name the first non-American has signaled another shift in direction.
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The ship, which led the UK's naval forces during the invasion of Iraq, is the fifth vessel to carry the name - the first saw battle in 1588 against the Spanish Armada.
Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called him by his last name because they couldn't pronounce his first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call.
He previously chaired the jury in 1983 when Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen was awarded the Golden Lion.
And it did more for Bebe than the Iranian-born Mashouf (his first name was originally Manoucher) could have imagined.
We first met Lazar Kunstmann - not his real name but the one he insists on using -- in an anonymous Parisian bar.
Chaplin comes from my father - that's his first name that was my grandfather's first name, so I'm named after both of them.
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