He felt it important to gather the team in a central location to foster camaraderie while inculcating the fast-paced international style, which values speed and the ability to score points quickly, to men who have been almost exclusively taught the more rugged professional techniques.
And new episodes of "The Office" begin April 10. "Leatherheads," directed by George Clooney, is a comedic tribute to the rough-and-tumble 1920s-era origins of professional football, in which Mr. Krasinski plays a college football star competing with a rugged professional athlete (played by Mr. Clooney) for the affections of a newspaper sportswriter (Renée Zellweger).
It was modelled on the more rugged "professional" model that had been created for the recording division of Philips that possessed metal grilles and a steel frame (instead of aluminium).
"There were educators, health-care professionals, technical professionals, rugged individualists -- man vs. nature types -- and then gay men and lesbians," Mr. Bennett said.
Like the whole place, the dining rooms are casual, unpretentious, very much in harmony with the rugged surroundings, but totally professional.
Behind our slick professional personas and chiselled, rugged features, a battle rages.
In other words, a professional-style range, a rugged, boxy implement whose burners torch 15,000 B.T.U.'s under a sauté pan, or flutter with a tiny flame to make a perfect beurre blanc.
Then the meticulous professional task of combing the rugged countryside around Machynlleth began in earnest.
The pieces, professional and academic instead of rugged, are byproduct of the artists' discipline, he says, "by focusing on the technical, I remove my work far from Abstract Expressionism… instead I would call it 'Abstract Technical.'".
Since its original iteration in 1992, ThinkPad has built a tradition of excellence, and is trusted by the world's most demanding professionals for its advanced capability, rugged durability and thoughtful design.
Among them was a very thick, professional Dell laptop — one of those rugged, military-style Latitude XFRs, which has a ballistic armor protection system and is sold in stores for a few thousand dollars.
