When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.
"A perfect situation would be someone saying, 'Here's a picture of so-and-so and they're wearing it, ' but you don't always get perfect, " Rubinstein said.
To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.
He still supports welfare reform--so long as no one gets hurt--and a balanced budget--so long as no popular programs get cut too much: a strategy that has left him with approval ratings roughly twice as high as either Gingrich's or Perot's.
Both versions include a wireless controller, a Blu-ray high-quality video player and a port so they can work with a high-definition display.
She got a famous character with a so-so story and no songs at all.
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Little brings her more of a thrill than taking a so-so sentence and making it shine or giving an alright paragraph more of a punch.
It looks like it is going to be a great Christmas fro Apple, and a not-so-good one for Microsoft and its hardware partners.
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We also wanted to make sure that in addition to government-to-government ties, we were initiating people-to-people ties, and so a Indian-American CEO conference took place.
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But the point is, the President called her to thank her for speaking out on a matter -- and doing so with great poise -- on a public policy matter, and to express his disappointment that she had been subjected to these kinds of attacks.
The next hurdle and the big opportunity for touch interfaces is moving to more abstract gestures: two- and three-finger swipes, a full-hand pinch, and so on.
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So let me begin, though, by seeing -- and then what I'll do is I'll call on a boy and then a girl and then -- so we'll go back and forth, so that you know it's fair.
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The Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD) incorporates a single BD-ROM layer and a single BD-RE layer so as to enable the user to view, but not overwrite, critical published data while providing the flexibility to include relevant personal data on the same physical disc.
Innovations derived from the consultation include knee-high glass panels on the doors so that smaller theater-goers can see where they are going and a sound-proofed room so that parents with crying babies can sit and watch the show without disturbing the rest of the audience.
As part of his employee contract with the Irish company, most of his salary is diverted into a nonqualified deferred-compensation plan, and held in a so-called Rabbi trust in a Caribbean tax haven, where it grows tax free.
It was the two-lane U.S. Highway 70, technically a federal road that was so rough and so sway-backed, it resembled a horse destined for the glue factory.
Dr Hinton's experiments have focused on hand-written letters and numbers (handwriting recognition being a crucial, and so-far unsolved, problem in machine vision).
In short, a few points on your score may mean the difference between a good rate and a so-so one but lenders won't tell you where they draw those lines.
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Most of the mining companies that Silver Wheaton works with produce silver as a by-product of their mining operations and so is a win-win arrangement for both the participating companies.
However, crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend and are so far just seeing a corrective and profit-taking pullback early this week.
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It can also be an indicator of -- or a contributor to -- so many relationships and connections that it makes it more difficult to provide the respectful skepticism necessary for independent oversight.
Hopefully, Congress will agree upon a lower estate tax rate and a higher exemption so middle-class income and other taxpayers are more protected.
The current fight over the debt limit comes less than a month after Congress and the White House struck a last-minute deal to prevent the so-called fiscal cliff - a combination of sharp spending cuts and tax increases.
The law was written for two private corporations so that a tax -- so that a corporate raider -- and this happened in the '80s -- would buy one unprofitable corporation, use their tax loss write-off to benefit the profits they were making another corporation.
In 2003, taxpayers faced a slew of changes, including new capital gains rates effective mid-year and a new lower rate on so-called qualified dividends.
But he does know the difference between a solid Emmys hosting job and a so-so one.
Half the top 10 scorers in the tournament have a strike rate of better than the run-a-ball rate of 100 and considerably so in some cases - but Trott and Bell sit in the mid-90s.
So for our people - and we are a Third-World country so we actually go through poverty every day.
We're only open Monday to Friday so a lot of our stuff comes in on a Monday - so all the drinks and cans came in and there were boxes and boxes of raw chicken breasts.
And so, if -- why -- I mean, why not use a carrot and stick approach if we were so concerned about the democratic -- the lack of democratic reform in Egypt?
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