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Publishing in Mozambique, where Portuguese is the language, is especially developed, Ms. Dax said, because "there is a very sophisticated university press, which could put any university press to shame by comparison, and all the books are printed on the premises".
Environmental groups, universities and government science agencies will more and more want sophisticated video press releases.
China is also, he complains, a source of counterfeit goods, complete with the "Made in Italy" label and even the washing-machine guarantee.Another successful example is Cerutti, a maker of sophisticated printing presses based in Casale Monferrato, near Turin.
"He was sophisticated with the press, but he wasn't slavishly party line," Bone told me.
The political class weren't as sophisticated at handling the press, or realising the power that they had.
Several of today's sections, including The Times Magazine and The Sophisticated Traveler, went to press before the terroist attacks last week.
Supporting this democracy are a free and vigilant press, a sophisticated tradition of social and political discourse, and a vibrant civil society.
But ultimately it is this tide of hatred, fed by the press and sophisticated political organisations, and providing an all too fitting opening to the 20th century, that really makes it significant.
I wish I could say that theatre people have a sophisticated response to negative press, but - even if it doesn't change the way I write - we don't.
