All that being said, we see our fair share of beautiful phones, and the Chocolate is by no means in a class by itself -- or so we thought.

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In addition to its superb specifications and outstanding performance, the X-Slim Series notebooks' aesthetics place it in a class by itself.

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General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.

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And because there is only one preferred seating position in the back, the rear cabin itself constitutes a two-class service.

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Sociological explanations about the decline of the working class do not quite suffice: newspapers can reinvent themselves, as the Daily Mail did in the 1970s, when it turned itself into the middle-class women's paper.

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