In order to get both Congressional leaders and foreign dollar buyers to accept these moves as the complete solution, the apparent size of the problem had to appear to shrink.

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The base is connected to the phone through a headset connector and, given its apparent size, seems more appropriate for use with a desktop cordless phone than with a mobile phone.

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The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).

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The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters.

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When new methods came in a few years ago, the stated size of the epidemic shrank sharply and it became apparent that the annual rate of new infections had peaked in the late 1990s.

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The correlation between nonprofit size and the boss's compensation was not always apparent.

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But they have been among the worst sinners during the Asian boom years, investing with no apparent regard for economic return and, collectively, running up debts five times the size of their equity.

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In being one of the lowest scoring sports in the world, low sample size of success (at least if measured by goals) and the apparent randomness with which it comes makes analysis of the sport perhaps the most difficult of those discussed within conference panels.

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Growers like Mr. Cheek say there is also reason to be optimistic about sales this year, since there has been some good weather on key tree-buying weekends this month and an apparent fondness among 20-somethings to buy real trees, even if they are table-top size.

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