While millions of Americans are expected to tune in to see movie stars walk the scarlet path at Sunday night's Academy Awards presentation at the soon-no-longer-to-be-called Kodak Theatre, a small but growing number of everyday folks are doing the peacock-strutting themselves at events ranging from bar mitzvahs to corporate bashes.
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The new building - to be called Europa - was commissioned in 2004.
The new company--to be called Sprint Nextel --will boast a particularly strong base of corporate customers, and a total subscriber base of around 40 million customers.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
Key issues of contention remain, including how strictly the protocol's requirements will be applied, and the extent to which the planting of pollution-absorbing trees - so-called carbon sinks - can be used to meet targets.
The government has appointed two women to be chief executives of its newly nationalized banks-- Landsbanki and Glitnir--now to be called New Landsbanki and New Glitnir.
Her new website - to be called Boo Enterprise - is set to be launched in the summer of 2010.
Google has revealed its first Chrome Os-powered notebook, to be called the Cr-48, according to trustedreviews.com.
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In that sense, credit applications aren't much different from the so-called stated-income mortgages that came to be called "liar loans" during the subprime crisis.
The controversy disrupted proceedings in the Indian Parliament Wednesday, where proceedings had to be adjourned after members of the Samajwadi Party, which is known to be pro-Anil, called for the resignation of the oil minister.
In the current debates about "fairness" - that contemporary sop for the aspirations to what used to be called "equality" - there is scant acknowledgement of the paralysing impact of poverty on social mobility.
Allowing selection within mixed-ability schools is what used to be called a cop-out, and is now known as the third way.
Within hours of his party taking the House, Representative John Boehner, the House Speaker-to-be, called it a "monstrosity" and declared he had a mandate to repeal it.
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His bride-to-be called the late princess "an inspirational woman" and said that joining the Royal Family was a "daunting prospect" but something she hoped to take in her stride.
As a top-50 player, Tipsarevic must adhere to the so-called whereabouts rule by making himself available to be tested in an one-hour slot for an out-of-competition test if the drug testers randomly come calling.
Infernum, a development studio, has come up with a free-to-play game called Brick-Force which can be best described as a Minecraft with guns.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the initial three-month observer mission to be expanded to 300 monitors in 10 locations, and asked the Security Council to authorize the expanded number.
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This week, the group said it will bundle its disparate e-commerce activities into a single entity, to be called Bertelsmann E-Commerce Group.
The second agreement addresses the question of "demarcationn" : Where is the technological line to be drawn between so-called "theater" missile defenses that were not supposed to be covered by the ABM Treaty and "strategic" defenses that were?
In August, the RSA charity - which aims to solve "social challenges" - also called for the public to be given lessons by officers and volunteers in how to defuse conflict.
I'm not pointing the finger at Wilkinson - I haven't called for him to be dropped - but a lot of England's players have had too many chances to play well and have not performed.
Anti-alcohol campaigners will be celebrating a Budget decision to class so-called alcopops in the same tax bracket as spirits - which could raise their cost.
"As a former protectee of Secret Service agents, I see no problem with the principle that they -- like all federal agents -- can be called upon to aid federal criminal investigations, " Quayle said.
And I argued that the easy way to do that would be to raise the so-called margin requirements how much money a trader has to set aside to control commodities contracts.
Another "former" - the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock - has called on witnesses to be "candid and honest" in their responses when it comes to the judicial inquiry.
Apple 's ( AAPL - news - people ) long-awaited tablet PC--if that multi-purpose slate can even be called a reader--which is expected to be revealed later this month.
One exception to the diminishing returns of e-reader launches will no doubt be Apple's long-awaited tablet PC--if that multi-purpose slate can even be called a reader--which is expected to be revealed later this month.
Anxiousness over Washington's bailout bill, coupled with fears of a global economic slowdown -- neither of which can exactly be called news -- seemed to be behind the decline .
Charles remembered a visit to Haiti about two years ago when Marcelin, believed to be in her mid-50s, called seeking help.
Mr. GEOFFREY YORK (Reporter, Globe and Mail): When you look at the strategy that they're supposed to follow, I mean, they're supposed to be doing the so-called three Ds: development, diplomacy, and defense.
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