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Mobile Karaoke and virtual friends may be peculiar to Japan, but the love affair with mobile phones is worldwide.
ECONOMIST: A Survey of Telecommunications: The world in your pocket | The
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Part of the explanation may be the peculiar Swiss attitude to bank secrecy.
ECONOMIST: The Swiss National Bank
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Most of the establishment Republicans it helped to upset in primaries in 2010 were the victims of low turnouts and peculiar circumstances unlikely to be repeated in the presidential campaign.
ECONOMIST: The Republican nomination
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In the business of trading risks around, insurers use a peculiar kind of bookkeeping that will be familiar to anyone who has played the lottery.
FORBES: Passing the Trash
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The announcement comes on an important day for The Times--and no, it's not because of the peculiar date, if you happen to be of a superstitious inclination.
FORBES: Murdoch's 'Times' Newspaper To Launch Internet TV
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But the role Mr Johnson would have to fill would be shaped by the peculiar circumstances that elevated him, and by the ebbing dynamics of the last months of Labour's long imperium.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
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They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
CNN: Sen. Gorton's closed-door impeachment statement
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It is quite peculiar to come back from an illness like that and be so good.
BBC: Steve Parrish's MotoGP column
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It seems peculiar, conceptually, that Facebook would allow works of art to be acceptable under the nudity policy, but not (computer-generated) images of science.
FORBES: Facebook Pulls Down 'Penis Size Matters' Study Link
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Regular visitors to Europe, the Middle East and Asia may be familiar with that peculiar jolt of recognition that comes with standing kneedeep in history, but North American travel destinations rarely offer such moments.
CNN: Revolutionary holidays in Williamsburg
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The current law, displaying a peculiar lack of hindsight, virtually guarantees that the FDA will clear new products proven to be sufficiently similar to ones already approved, even in cases when they contain the same design flaws that have prompted recalls of the latter.
FORBES: Loophole in FDA's Approval Process for Medical Devices Prompts Letter from Congress