Funakoshi was, in turn, impressed by Otsuka's enthusiasm and determination to understand karate, and agreed to teach him.

They are still sponsored by Otsuka's best-known brand, Pocari Sweat sports drink.

A meeting with American television companies ( ABC, Métromédia, NBC ) created the series The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau, with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress ) intended to give the films a " personalized adventure " style.

In his first command, Custer affected a showy, personalized uniform style that alienated his men, but he won them over with his readiness to lead attacks ( a contrast to the many officers who would hang back, hoping to avoid being hit ); his men began to adopt elements of his uniform, especially the red neckerchief.

While the series ' direct address to its child audience makes the series a popular choice for independent reading, it can make the books ineffective as read-aloud books due to their personalized style of writing and the visual aspects of the books.

In the 1970s the party was highly personalized in Veikko Vennamo and his style of leadership alienated some in the party, which led to a split in the parliamentary group in 1972.

The style of the letter should be personalized but not overdone.

A current prototype personalized gun relies on biometric sensors in the grip and trigger that can track a gun owner ’ s hand size, strength, and Dynamic grip style also known as ( DGR ) Dynamic Grip Recognition.

Gear's " personalized " license plate is also written in exactly the same style and font as the logo for the comic Gear which loosely inspired the Catscratch series.

Munch's art was highly personalized and he did little teaching.

The result was a personalized, but superficial and inherently self-defeating design.

For example, the original impetus behind the development of Mozilla Firefox was the pursuit of a small baseline application, leaving exotic or personalized functionality to be implemented by extensions to avoid feature creep.

Thus, until the 1980s power in the Republic of China was personalized rather than institutionalized which meant that the power of the president depended largely on who occupied the office.

When manual switching systems began to be replaced by automatic, or " dial " systems, there was frequently concern among users that the very personalized emergency service provided by manual operators would be lost.

He was the 1948 Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses and attended several subsequent Rose Bowl games ( his black limousine with personalized CA license plate " ONB " and a red plate with 5 gold stars was frequently seen driving through Pasadena streets with a police motorcycle escort to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day ), and was prominent at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, and the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana in later years.

By creating an unprecedented tax-incentived mechanism ( wherein each investor received a specially personalized Lotus Turbo Esprit ), the new American company, Lotus Performance Cars Inc. ( LPCI ), was able to provide fresh capital to the Group Lotus in the United Kingdom.

This intense, highly personalized relationship was undoubtedly one of the reasons for Umm Kulthum's tremendous success as an artist.

Housing aid was increased by over 8 % over 1989, with personalized aid extended to those who had been previously excluded from the housing allowance.

Postman also worried that the personalized computer was going to take away from individuals socializing as citizens and human beings.

For example, the original impetus behind the development of Mozilla Firefox was the pursuit of a small baseline application, leaving exotic or personalized functionality to be implemented by extensions to avoid feature creep.

For longer trips, the caboose provided minimal living quarters, and was frequently personalized and decorated with pictures and posters.

The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions.

Before the Federal Reserve established regulations in 1967 requiring that cheques be MICR encoded in order to be handled by their clearing houses, it was fairly common for banks, especially in small towns, to issue cheque to customers which were not personalized other than the name of the bank.

" Emphasis was on locally owned and operated businesses and personalized service.

Lobsang ( born Newgate Ludd ) was raised by the Ankh-Morpork Thieves ' Guild, but was discovered by Soto of the History Monks when Lobsang performed the Stance of the Coyote ( personalized time shift, presumably a reference to cartoon character Wile E. Coyote's ability to pause in mid-air, often for comic effect ) in order to save his own life after falling from a rooftop, which would have killed him.

" It was always a pleasure to go to car shows and trade fairs and see the number of Magnums that owners had personalized with such obvious loving care.

It was a pasquinade in that it was an explicit and personalized attack on Robert Walpole and his supporters.

They are also occasionally used to create first day of issues for personalized U. S. postage ( officially defined as meter labels and thus not requiring cancellation ).

It has an integrated model of comprehensive and personalized financial planning, diversified product manufacturing and affiliated and unaffiliated distribution through its network of financial advisors and registered representatives.

Algis Budrys praised Rite of Passage as an " intensely believable, movingly personalized story ," saying that " each of the little, perfectly realized steps " in the story " is so perfectly done that one feels a real shock as one realizes that Panshin after all has never been a girl growing up aboard a hollowed-out planetoid.

* Stomach Pump 2000 ( original air date: November 14, 2002 )-Sanford becomes the " bitch " to a female bully after stealing her personalized T-shirt.

However, after being convinced to keep it, she personalized it, giving it a more pop and R & B melody, as well as changing some of the lyrics to more precisely fit her personality.

However, after being connived by Mottola to keep the song, Carey changed the song and personalized it, during which time she grew to feel a connection to the song an its lyrics.

" on the opposing teams respective hits, personalized cheers for Bentonville's own serving players, and general obscenities yelled during serves, volleys, and after questionable calls.

In March 2008, The Way to Happiness Foundation agreed to stop sending thousands of unsolicited, personalized copies of the booklet to elected officials in Florida, after hundreds of them complained.

Unlike many mayors who were reported to have been displeased at seeing their names on the personalized samples, Anthony Masiello, the mayor of Buffalo, did authorize distribution of the booklet, complete with the city seal and a picture of the city hall, after a Scientology center opened in Buffalo.

Later that evening, after Peter has returned home, they are chatting with a friend in the living room with their personalized ambient lighting switched on.

The cost of new diagnostic tests and individualized medications may be more expensive, but the predictive potential of personalized medicine could avert more costly treatments required after the onset of a disease.

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community.

Paperweight may be personalized on back while clay is leather hard.

The crux of ecumenical advance is an even more personalized matter than the relation between congregations in the same community.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

The university has emphasized a personalized education.

If this is a true observation, it may be expected that the audience which both demands and consumes this emphasis itself is more receptive to personalized, dramatic accounts of social phenomena.

Instead of generating broad demographic profiles and psycho-graphic profiles of market segments, marketers have started to engage in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization.

It offers a wide array of personalized options to help individuals make healthy food choices.

Spiritual Deists reject all divine revelation, religious dogma, and supernatural events and favor an ongoing personalized connection with the divine presence through intuition, communion with nature, meditation and contemplation.

In order for the performer to be successful, the air stream direction and mouthpiece placement need to be personalized based on individual anatomical differences.

Blogs – with their threaded comments, personalized illustrations, shorthand in-jokes, wide variety in quality and wider variety of content — follow the structure developed in science fiction fanzines, without ( usually ) realizing the antecedent.

A graffiti writer's tag is his or her personalized signature.

An investor in a hedge fund usually has direct access to the investment advisor of the fund, and may enjoy more personalized reporting than investors in retail investment funds.

The music, however, did not fit his lyrics or form of delivery, which ultimately led Marrow to develop his own personalized skills as a rapper.

* Interactive Fiction Database, a community site where you can find personalized recommendations for IF games to play.

The existence and success of companies using insurance agents is likely due to improved and personalized service.

Such phenomena, often explained in terms of inverted-U response curves, place differential psychology at an important location in such endeavours as personalized medicine, in which diagnoses are customised for an individual's response profile.

My Best Buy is a tiered, digital loyalty and customer engagement program that is designed to build a lifelong relationship with the customer by providing a personalized experience through which they can manage their digital and technology needs.

The more personalized objects are used to add extra power because of the symbolic value.

A customizable microcontroller incorporates a block of digital logic that can be personalized in order to provide additional processing capability, peripherals and interfaces that are adapted to the requirements of the application.