• The throwback drugstores were the only two retailers to receive positive ratings for both Apple iOS and Android-focused apps in the study, which scraped every review in the Apple App Store and Google Play store for Android apps and ranked them for their positive or negative response.

    FORBES: The Surprising Retail Winner In Mobile Apps

  • But along with gladiator skills and spear fishing, falconry is one of the many throwback sports enjoying a revival as been-there-done-that travelers hunt for new experiences.

    WSJ: Learn Ancient Sports Around the World

  • Given the sorry state of the financial markets, politicians are clamoring for the recreation of a throwback to the 1980s savings and loan crisis: an entity like the Resolution Trust Corp. to help relieve banks of their toxic assets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Following the game, Dundee FC officials said the scenes at the game were a "throwback to the 70s" and that fans and stewards were abused as Celtic supporters fought among themselves.

    BBC: Dens Park

  • The level of butchery is a throwback to the 1980s, when an estimated 100, 000 elephants were being killed every year, according to WWF.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • There is another Buick, called the Lucerne, a throwback small wagon called the Chevy HHR and a redesigned Chevy Impala that was not received warmly at its introduction at last year's Los Angeles auto show.

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  • The Drybar phenom may feel like a throwback to the weekly hairdo our moms (or grandmothers) used as a way to pamper themselves.

    FORBES: Drybar: How One Woman And A Hair Dryer Became A $20 Million Operation

  • He wasn't Dan Marino or John Elway--strong, rifle-armed quarterbacks of the same era who were seemingly bred to play in the NFL. Flutie was unique, a throwback to the days when being a college star for its own sake was enough.

    FORBES: Sports

  • Hubbard left his distinctive mark on a workshop of handmade goods called the Roycrofters, a throwback to medieval guilds and reaction against the mechanization of the industrial age.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • For all his modern tendencies and techno toys, Spector wants people to just look at how "cartoony -- that's really the only word I can think of" Oswald is, a throwback to the old days of cartooning and cartoon characters.

    CNN: Meet Oswald, Mickey's lucky, techie 'big brother'

  • Yet the tiny, undated "Moonlit Landscape" by Ralph Blakelock is a throwback to the grand manner.

    WSJ: Nature in America | A Landscape in Evolution | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

  • The younger, trendier line of Marc Jacobs was a polished and quiet throwback to the 1960s.

    WSJ: Friendships bubble up at NY Fashion Week

  • Perhaps the most successful musician of the past year is the pianist Adele, whose performing and songwriting are equally personal and unadorned -- a throwback to the early '70s singer-songwriters, or perhaps Norah Jones and Alicia Keys.

    CNN: Has image overtaken music?

  • In many cases the only way you can get favorite network shows in high-definition (if they're presented that way in the first place) is a throwback to 1950: over the air via a roof antenna--or, if you're lucky, indoor rabbit ears.

    FORBES: What's On

  • The Leica M9 Neiman Marcus Edition camera is a vintage throwback that hinges on the current popularity (for both amateur and professional photographers) of Polaroids and old film.

    FORBES: Connect

  • "It's almost a throwback to the old, dial-for-dollars method of recruiting, " says Ms. Yarnot.

    WSJ: Recruiters Change Employee-Hunting Tactics

  • "Good bank, bad bank" is a throwback to the Depression era--and to the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "It has been peaceful and settled for some time and this incident is an unwelcome throwback to the past, " he said.

    BBC: Larne explosion 'linked to dissident republicans'

  • It is a throwback to the 1947 partition plan, which decades of hostility and war have swept off the negotiating table.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Mideast Peace Under Arabs? Control

  • Prince Bandar is a throwback to the days when diplomats did not just communicate policy, they shaped it according to whom they knew.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Even as a professional, Socrates was a throwback to the amateur era, one where athletes were not defined solely by the sport they played.

    WSJ: Soccer: Socrates, Brazil's Philosopher King - Marcotti

  • Many backbenchers believe he looks like an ageing throwback to the bad old days at a time they want a young, modern, forward-looking leader.

    BBC: By Nick Assinder

  • The agency is a throwback, to a time when relationships mattered.

    FORBES: What Happened To Chicago's Ad Agencies?

  • Until that happens, this will continue to be the incongruous and sad throwback in an industry that prides itself on cutting-edge technology and bleeding-edge imagination.

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  • 's outlets in America are a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when nearly every newspaper had an overt political affiliation, Harvard University sociologist Theda Skocpol said.

    CNN: Rupert Murdoch: Media magnate grilled on power, influence

  • It's a sort of throwback to the 19th century.

    BBC: The Speaker must go

  • With their small screens and limited processing power, mobile phones are a throwback to the 1980s, when a lone programmer toiling over a computer could cook up a hit game in a few weeks.

    ECONOMIST: Video games

  • Rain-Slick Precipice 3 is a throwback to the classic 16-bit era and runs smooth without any kind of connection, so keep it on hand when you find yourself in one of those dark pockets of the world.

    FORBES: Top 5 Mobile RPGs For Thanksgiving

  • And even at Wentworth, there are rules: no singlet or vest tops, shirts must have a collar (a throwback to the elitist collar-and-tie days, when golf was only played by the upper classes) and strictly no denim.

    WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: Golf Fashion

  • In the Ministry of Housing's dim halls that seem like a throwback to better days in the 1950s, Heba Abdelfadel, an architect and consultant for the division of the ministry that headed Cairo 2050, hunches over blueprints of a slum where she hopes to create wider roads in order to open the community to commerce.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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