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• n  a sample piece of cloth

• Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest, got a new industrial enterprise.
• There's a wide swatch of emotion cutting through me, sometimes swirling, never simple .
• Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where .

News & Articles

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• Swatch's $90 Dive Watches Won't Take You To the Depths Of Poverty
  If you're into any kind of serious underwater adventuring, you'll probably balk at Swatch's new Scuba Libre line. But at just $90 they're not targeted at timepiece connoisseurs or wannabe Jacques Cousteaus. They're designed for an afternoon at the beach where you won't be too devastated if your watch gets destroyed after an epic tubing run. Read more...        
  June 12, 2013 - Gizmodo
• Swatch, Sthrling settle Men in Black suit
  Watch manufacturer Sthrling Original LLC and multimedia retailer ShopNBC have agreed to stop selling the Sthrling Ricochet, the timepiece Swatch Group (U.S.) Inc. claimed in a lawsuit was a copy of the Hamilton Ventura.
  June 10, 2013 - National Jeweler

Quotes

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• Nicolas G Hayek in WELT ONLINE
  Nicolas G. Hayek, chairman and co-founder of The Swatch Group Ltd., said that "This agreement is a pathbreaking strategic move. The Swatch Group Ltd. and Tiffany & Co. are again setting trends. It allows without any financial capital transaction the...
• Henry David Thoreau in Inman.com (subscription)
  I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms,...
• Kofi Annan in Fibre2fashion.com
  I would like to applaud Swatch for having produced the special version of their famous timepiece to mark this historic occasion,Mr. Annan said on receiving the watch, which has a blue face with a big 19 on it for the date and the new...