The chief executive of Hasbro France, Paul Audouy, said recent innovations such as the ability for Sindy to swim and walk a small dog would strengthen her market position.
After presenting at an education conference in Lisbon at the end of June, Felicia Hirata and I traveled north and walked a small part, about 70 kilometers (roughly 45 miles) of the Camino Francés which stretches almost 500 miles from St. Jean-Pied-du-Port near Biarritz in France to Santiago.
The baton was taken up again after the second world war, and JA Baker, obsessively walking a small stretch of the Essex coast in a search of peregrine falcons, became the single most important inspiration of all who followed.
And then, following the wreath, in walked a small group of men with shining medals hanging on blue ribbons around their necks — some of the small group of just 72 people still living who have earned the Medal of Honor themselves.
When I went to Papay, I was attracted to the idea that, by living and walking on a small island, I could become familiar with the whole island, know all its residents and be able to understand it all.
They spend their days talking with one another, reading, watching television -- especially news programs -- and walking around a small courtyard ("It's 140 paces one way and 80 paces the other," Mr. Ramirez said).
Participants reported whether they needed (1) no help, (2) help, or (3) were unable to do each of six activities: bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting, transferring, and walking across a small room.
Like stepping through the wardrobe into Narnia, visitors head to the back of a tumbledown pub and walk through a small passage into a vast, barrel-vaulted music hall.
Just after 9 tonight, the police said, he stepped from a car and walked into a small open-air pavilion on the edge of the downtown park, where members of the city's large Russian immigrant population, many of them elderly, come at night to play dominoes, cards and chess.
We reached her house, secured the car behind an iron fence, and walked to a small yard, where she pointed to an orange plastic crate.
