It's just striking up this conversation that should be had.
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Eventually, you'll start feeling more comfortable striking up and maintaining interesting conversations.
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He enjoys striking up conversations with strangers and engages people whenever possible.
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Every time, she ended up striking up a conversation with a neighbor.
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The atmosphere had got rowdy, strangers striking up conversations like old friends.
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The next slide, Bruno said, is handy for striking up conversation with employers.
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So he decided to make the best of it by striking up a conversation.
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Now she was back to striking up conversations with strangers in the grocery store.
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The thought of striking up a conversation with a gallery owner can seem daunting.
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I grew up in California, a state where strangers are always striking up conversations.
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With a sunny disposition and her ease at striking up conversations, she quickly excelled.
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He also recommends just being nice and striking up a conversation with hardworking flight attendants.
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He also wanted to ascertain whether striking up a conversation with Ms. Jaques was appropriate.
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But his recent sightings with Trump don't necessarily suggest the two are striking up a bromance.
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And she does at least appear open to striking up close relationships with some overseas partners.
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Striking up a conversation with a sexy stranger could be the best move you've ever made.
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Japan, however, is still striking up alliances with the U.S., Australia and India to check China's power.
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Over the years, she's made friends with residents, striking up conversations in the lobby and the courtyard.
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Yet she puts her career on the line by striking up affairs with suspects to retrieve evidence.
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But when it goes offline, other networks in the brain that don't ordinary talk start striking up conversations.
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Like striking up a conversation with nearby staff while scanning your products, and then sneaking something past them.
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Mars, one of the biggest privately held American corporations, had long been interested in striking up a partnership.
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She bonded with one dwarf by purchasing a hotdog from his snack bar and striking up a conversation.
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Keeping watch over a bar, striking up conversations with Jones, Cage appears to us as a pillar of Harlem.
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Reckard and Basco were always smiling and striking up conversations even if there was a language barrier, Duran said.
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American customers, universities and others will likely look askance at striking up relations with Chinese companies on the blacklist.
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He added that following and flirting with me seemed more harmless than striking up a conversation with someone new.
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If I go out for drinks, or travel alone, or sit on a park bench, nobody's striking up a conversation.
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So some of the spontaneity you had before, making change in a coffee shop or striking up a conversation, disappears.
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Striking up conversations with people you see at your local coffee shop sounds easy, but it can actually be pretty intimidating.
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While the White House mulls striking up a joint cyber program with Russia, an unlikely vigilante is taking care of business.
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Reeves, 54, added some theatricality to his recordings, striking up poses as he read his lines for the upcoming animated film.
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The company made its name selling over-the-top streaming devices and striking up partnerships with content companies like Netflix and Hulu.
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For a year or two he stumbles around, generally meaning generally well-ish, inadvertently striking up a romance with Mindy Kaling's Kelly.
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The series ends with Daisy striking up a romance with a handsome young footman and considering moving to a farm with him.
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Health care companies are trying to fend off tech giants with one hand while striking up partnerships with them with the other.
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At the end of the first season, Letty regained custody of her son (Nyles Steele) by striking up a deal with the FBI.
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Magazine profiles invariably emphasize that she'd published practically nothing before striking up an epistolary friendship with the novelist Jonathan Franzen in middle age.
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And it has done this to an extent by striking up multiple agreements with third parties to offer consumers interest-paying savings accounts.
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Later, she will find herself on a train heading west, striking up a friendship with a man bound for the province of Xinjiang.
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Striking up a conversation, Hofstetter told the pair that she is a single mom who works three jobs to provide for her two kids.
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The company has instead been striking up partnerships with companies like Kroger, Jenny Craig, and even subscription beauty company Birchbox to fill its stores.
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However, it can also take smaller forms, like striking up a conversation with someone new if you're normally shy, or trying a new food.
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The coyote ended up striking up a close friendship with a local great Pyrenees, and their bond helped the researchers track the animal down.
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If you're looking to meet new people, the unstructured environment of a bar more readily lends itself to striking up a conversation with a stranger.
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Joan appears from a stall, striking up conversation with Joni, as the two intellectually bond over their shared admiration for Joan Didion and Joan Jett.
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However, after striking up a deal with UFC, he didn't seem too worried about missing out on a shot at the SBG Manchester man's title.
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The moon enters Leo and lights up the communication sector of your chart (not that you aren't already always striking up a conversation with someone).
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One day, strolling in the cobblestoned historic center here, he heard a street musician striking up a theme he hadn't identified from the Caife collection.
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It comes at a time when multiple platforms are dealing with child predators targeting kids for sexual abuse by striking up conversations in chat windows.
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So the Dixie Chicks looked for ways to connect with new fans, striking up partnerships with liberal-leaning businesses like Starbucks to sell the album.
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Striking up a conversation with someone can catch them off guard, so it's important to make sure you make your email as personal as possible. 2.
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Some are pretty mild, like "LOVE BUN" and "YOU ARE BABE," while others, like "SWEAT POO," are not the obvious choice for striking up a romance.
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Yet striking up a conversation with one of these seemingly contented locals, the traveller may well be told that the country is going to the dogs.
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That could be why Kylie Jenner brought her friends to Travis Scott's birthday on Sunday, further fueling rumors that the two are striking up a relationship.
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Little did any of us know that while they were working away on Hamilton's album, they were also striking up a collaborative album of their own.
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Speaking to Business Insider, O'Connor said he developed the idea while living opposite Netflix's California HQ, and striking up friendships with a number of employees there.
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On this day, he had agreed to tackle his social anxiety by sitting next to a stranger on a park bench and striking up a conversation.
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The startup overhauled its website, notified drivers, and began striking up partnerships with local businesses to help service delivery needs ranging from garden supplies to groceries.
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Tim's efforts at striking up conversations... Tim's been out of the dating game for some time, and online dating apps were a whole new realm to him.
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The revolution is led by a "dissident minority" from the elite who, by striking up an alliance with the lower orders, rouse them from their traditional docility.
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Baidu has also thrown its hat into the autonomous vehicle game, striking up relationships with Ford, ON Semiconductor and, most recently, BlackBerry to develop self-driving technology.
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The "phone Romeo," as he is known here, calls numbers at random until he hears a woman's voice, in the hope of striking up a romantic attachment.
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I remember striking up a conversation with my cab driver on the way there, telling him I was going to meet my recipient for the first time.
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One enthusiast is so dedicated to the mission that he's been planning it for six months—striking up a collaboration involving supersonic fighter jets from the US Navy.
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Flying can be stressful, especially when you have disruptive seatmates invading your personal space, striking up awkward conversations, or getting in the way of your super long nap.
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Demi Lovato is NOT striking up a romance with Machine Gun Kelly ... even though they were spotted leaving a club together in the wee hours of the morning.
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After striking up a few conversations with the gawkers, I realized that they were official election observers who had been dispatched by candidates to guard against counting shenanigans.
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Whether one is striking up a conversation at a coffee shop or tallying up proximity points with a potential love interest, geography matters in large ways and small.
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The pair first meet as high schoolers, striking up an unlikely relationship — he's popular and well-liked; she's a loner — and later attend Trinity College in Dublin together.
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Australia-born Chapman legally changed his name to Tank Hafertepen about six years after striking up a submissive relationship with Dylan Hafertepen, a heavily tattooed and beefily muscular dom.
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Jones has been the brand's menswear designer since 2011 and has been known for his trend-setting ways and striking up buzzed-about collaborations, like the latest with Supreme.
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Jessi (Jessi Klein) After discovering that her mother was cheating on her father with Cantor Dina, Jessie goes off the rails, striking up a relationship with Jay (Jason Mantzoukas).
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You have your twice-weekly one-on-ones, and aside from that, your boss prefers striking up a face-to-face conversation to chatting over Slack or on Gchat.
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In reviewing a merger between Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Media General, the Justice Department under the Obama administration prohibited the companies from striking up side deals with divested stations.
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An Ernst & Young report commissioned by Avid and shared with Reuters confirmed that Avid used computer programs, dubbed fembots, that impersonated real women, striking up conversations with paying male customers.
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But while getting up on a stage in front of an audience can definitely be nerve wracking, many people find striking up a conversation one-on-one just as intimidating.
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He moved into the financial field after striking up a friendship with Irving Bank's chairman at the time, Gordon T. Wallis, during their train commutes between Manhattan and Westchester County.
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With Giuliana already striking up deals with Andre and set for a sexual relationship with Lucious, as sneak peaks suggest, the clever woman is slowly clawing her way in Empire Entertainment.
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So, you know, we're striking up deals, we're looking to diversify Australia's trade exposure, South America, deals with Indonesia, with Hong Kong, with China, with the European Union-, SC: Well-, SC: [Laughs].
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Bernie Sanders stood in solidarity with the 39,000 Verizon workers striking up and down the East Coast when he stopped by a picket line in Brooklyn Wednesday, as the Associated Press reports.
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Finding her subjects means, for Casteel, forging relationships—she prowls the streets with her (serious) camera in tow, making eye contact, striking up conversations, learning about people's lives, and taking their pictures.
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What makes the movie so relatable is its portrayal of everyday interactions — talking to a crush, striking up a conversation with the cool kids — through the eyes of a self-doubting teenager.
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As early as 2015, the 50-year-old R&B singer wooed the women, often aspiring performers, by inviting them backstage during concerts or striking up a "music relationship," parents told BuzzFeed.
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Like nearly every woman I know, I've sat down in a coffee shop with a book only to find myself held hostage by some man, striking up what could pass as innocent conversation.
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Striking up an artistic and romantic relationship amid the light rails of St. Louis, Utah & Ether hunted trains in cities throughout the United States, including their respective hometowns of New York and Chicago.
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She also demonstrated odd behaviors: constantly talking to herself, frequently repeating stories, striking up monologues with total strangers, commandeering someone else's cart in a grocery store and unloading it at the checkout counter.
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From afar, the horizontality of the work stands in for the chain and is powerfully striking; up-close, the individual billboards are surprisingly anti-monumental, as they are precariously perched on easels with wheels.
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Kruger and Reedus met on the set of 2015 flick Sky in which Kruger's character embarks on a journey of self-discovery after leaving her husband and striking up a romance with Reedus' character, Diego.
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Over on the West Coast, Microsoft made an interesting announcement this week, that it's striking up a "strategic alliance" with Providence St. Joseph Health, a $24 billion health system in its neck of the woods.
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After graduating from Springfield College, he moved to Los Angeles, toyed with becoming a professional bodybuilder, but switched his focus to wrestling after striking up a friendship with the wrestler Mike Bell, who died in 2008.
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Running into work by artists with whom I'm very familiar or have written about lately gave me a similar feeling: like striking up an ongoing conversation with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while.
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The film shows DiCaprio striking up a friendship with a Pawnee tribesman in the middle of his quest for revenge, though its depiction of a brutal rape of a Native American girl has also drawn criticism.
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Annette Callahan still remembers watching Bob Harvey pass notes to her friend in study hall, wondering if perhaps the boy she liked from afar on the football team was striking up a romance with someone else.
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How Genentech uses alternative forms of dataBefore his current role, Talbert was working within Roche's business-development department striking up standard licensing deals and acquisitions that the company could use to beef up its drug portfolio.
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From showing off your trivia knowledge, to enjoying a dinner uninterrupted by a phone notification, to striking up conversation with a stranger — ahead, here's what we miss about life before we had minicomputers in our pockets.
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But I wouldn't mind striking up a correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, the finest natural writer to occupy the presidency and the public figure most acutely aware of the tragic contradictions at the heart of American history.
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And over several visits during a couple of months, I waited with them, striking up conversations outside a food stand run by a Greek family and next to pay phones that had stopped working years ago.
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He was often seen walking outside, striking up conversations with acquaintances on the street corners, or relaxing and enjoying a beer on a bench in the courtyards of the Melrose Houses, his neighbor Ray Soriano said.
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He was hoping to solicit new users to beta test his app, but in lieu of sponsoring a booth at the conference, Poole stuck to striking up conversations with fellow attendees and encouraging them to sign up.
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Baker expects that to survive and thrive, more online lenders may need to remodel themselves into the institutions they vowed to replace, either by becoming banks, buying or selling to banks, or else striking up partnerships with banks.
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As I ran around the city to different landmarks, I found myself striking up conversations completely at random with the other people catching Pokémon, sharing tips and helping each other out on finding the best rare Pokémon nearby.
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In Kathmandu, she quickly announced herself as a force, attending lavish parties thrown by Nepal's royal family and striking up a close friendship with Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand climber who first scaled Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay.
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In the first week of the next semester, she spotted him inside a Wawa store near campus and made her move, striking up a catch-up conversation that made Mr. Thau "very, very excited," as he put it.
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For a month, she took the bold step of traveling alone in Cordoba, Granada, Madrid and Seville, riding on hot and dusty trains, reveling in her anonymity and striking up conversations with fellow passengers, hotel guests and locals.
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While any interracial relationship striking up circa 1948 would face no small amount of criticism, Khama's status as the Prince of Bechuanaland, the former name for what would come to be known as Botswana, added another layer of complexity.
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Walgreens has also been striking up partnerships with grocery stores, health plans, beauty subscription boxes, and tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily, with the hope of finding new ways to make use of the drugstore's footprint.
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The two met several years back, then label-mates of The 1975's self-made outlet Dirty Hit, striking up a romantic relationship which—as is the way in our social media saturated world—didn't stay secret for long.
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Chia's disruption of business as usual in the tower leads Chong to contemplate striking up an alliance with Chia and the son of a slain professor whose work with "ex-stem cells" forms the basis of Sky One's fortune.
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Last week, white Reddit user SlothofDoom reported that after striking up a convo one night with two black men who were also playing the game, all three were approached by a cop who suspected them of conducting a drug deal.
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That's why John McCain's 2008 convention was basically a dud in Sarah Palin gift wrap, and Mitt Romney's in 2012 was somewhat slapdash—themed after a random, decontextualized Obama "gaffe," ending with Clint Eastwood striking up conversation with an empty chair.
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If you have a crush on the subway guy, then, it's in your best interest to continue taking the same train and eventually striking up a conversation to see if he really is the kind, caring, and trustworthy man you imagine.
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Walgreens operates roughly 2500,22021 pharmacies and has been striking up partnerships with grocery stores, health plans, beauty subscription boxes, and tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet, with the hope of finding new ways to make use of its drugstores and draw customers.
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A dreamer with a rebellious streak and a hunger for literature, she's causing a fine ruckus in the sleepy town of Zebulon, striking up a clandestine romance with Jimmy Ray Dobbs the son of the powerful mayor, with traumatic consequences.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Romeos Random-Dial for Love" (front page, March 23), about men in India who call random numbers "in the hope of striking up a romantic attachment": I met my husband thanks to an accidental wrong number.
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Ukraine has accused Russia of applying "massive, unlawful and illegitimate economic and political pressure to Ukraine in 2013", forcing the country to accept Moscow's financial support instead of striking up closer ties with the EU, according to earlier court documents.
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The producers also interview a number of former cult members and survivors of the standoff, as well as third parties who identify Koresh as a "con man," taking control over the Branch Davidians after striking up a relationship with their leader.
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As you can guess from the latter aforementioned SNL sketch's title, one of the older women is Davidson's character's teacher (Cecily Strong in a wavy wig), who is now on trial for striking up a full-blown sexual relationship with Davidson's Gavin.
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In March, former Bachelorette Bristowe alleged that in 2015, Fleiss told her she "wasn't allowed" to join DWTS after she had already nabbed a contract — striking up a conversation about why so few Bachelorettes appear on the reality series in comparison to Bachelors.
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A burglary suspect on the run for nearly a decade, investigators said, Mr. Sabatino had perfected his technique: He would slip past doormen by pretending to live there, striking up conversations with residents or complimenting their dogs and walking in with them.
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A burglary suspect on the run for nearly a decade, investigators said, Mr. Sabatino had perfected his technique: He would slip past doormen by pretending to live there, striking up conversations with residents or complimenting their dogs and walking in with them.
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Instead of seeking to impress China's Xi with missiles fired at Syria "in lieu of after-dinner entertainment" during the Florida summit in April 2017, Trump should have been a gracious host striking up a trade deal as a matter of great national priority.
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And thinking back on it, the worst thing possible would have been striking up a friendship; he remains alien to me, a figure above it all, a sassy Prometheus who handed some stuff down from on high and then went on about his life.
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These advances and interactions might manifest as catcalls on the street, attempts to hit on a woman when she's wearing headphones or otherwise visibly "closed off"/uninterested in striking up a conversation, or the creepy and unbroken gaze of a random dude on a plane.
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All these present potentially disruptive competitive forces for companies like Visa, and so striking up relationships with the new class companies, which are unpinning the financial services being built for those users, gives Visa a seat at the table, so to speak, to remain a part of the transaction.
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She pointed out that May had already had a phone conversation with Trump, in which he invited her to visit Washington at the earliest opportunity and voiced his hopes of striking up a relationship comparable to that between former President Ronald Reagan and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: As a gardener, I could not resist striking up a conversation with an erect, gray-haired woman who was cultivating a narrow patch of land between the F.D.R. Drive, where cars whiz by heading north, and a path used by walkers, joggers and bikers.
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In his research, Dr. Epley found that people often enjoyed striking up conversations with strangers on their commutes to work, but were not likely to do so because they believed the ride would be more pleasant in silence or assumed the other person wouldn't find the dialogue interesting.
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For mom Elsa (Leigh), that includes striking up a flirtation with a bartender (Raul Castillo) -- causing her to wince when someone mentions the need for "self-care" at her support group -- while carrying a lingering grudge against her husband (Michael Rapaport), who had trouble dealing with Sam in the past.
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But Billy Graham (pictured), probably the most famous American evangelical preacher of the 20th century, surprised some of his Christian compatriots by striking up a friendly relationship with the Russian Orthodox church (in the days when it was beholden to Soviet authority) and taking seriously the Soviet authorities' claim to respect religious freedom.
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The attendees I met on the train took different paths to the scene—one was a software engineer at Google, one was in seventh grade, and another hadn't even heard of Synchrony before, but was roped into collaborating on a project after striking up a conversation with a scener during the train ride.
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Alice, the book's lead, is living in limbo after graduating from college, and in search of a "single, coherent narrative" about her origins (something her adoptive English mother has been unable to supply.) After striking up a correspondence with her sick grandmother, Alice travels to New York to help out during Silvia's cancer treatment.
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But when it is new and fresh, there is nothing sweeter: walking through a light snow, the usual sounds magically muffled; experiencing the vicarious thrill of a child's first sledding expedition; seeing a cardinal alight on a bird feeder, red against white; striking up a conversation with a neighbor shoveling on a street where interaction is limited or nonexistent; lighting a fire as snow swirls outside.
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Ukraine argues that the original loan agreement was invalid because Russia applied economic and political pressure on it in 2013, forcing it to accept Moscow's financial support instead of striking up closer ties with the EU. "Ukraine welcomes the opportunity in these proceedings to lay out the full facts and matters concerning the period leading up to and following the issuance of the December 2013 Eurobonds," the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said.
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Other attendees noted their personal connections to MPTF: On stage, Pine revealed his memories of visiting his grandmother, 1940s-era horror film actress and pinup Anne Gwynne, during her twilight years as a resident there, while Cranston shared a warm, hilarious and slightly scandalous story of his mother, actress Audrey Peggy, in her final years at the campus, striking up a passionate – and apparently quite torrid – romance with one of her fellow residents.
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