Also, they're light, easy to carry, generally easier to learn than a smartphone or computer and don't require much typing -- considerable benefits to people with arthritic hands or joints.

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Although "Bruges-La-Morte" enjoyed considerable success in its day, it lost much of its appeal for succeeding generations.

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When I analyze FDIC loan exposure data lately, I find that while bigger regional banks retain considerable exposure to CRE loans, the ratios to risk-based capital are much lower and thus are not considered a threat.

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One of the knocks on Jobs was that he never contributed much of his considerable fortune, or celebrity, to charity -- at least not in the public ways other tech titans like Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg have.

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So much better that Tierney is putting his own considerable funds into Zimbabwe and all across sub-Saharan Africa.

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"Despite a considerable amount of research into the effects of legal highs, much is still unknown about their longer-term impact, " she said.

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Recent reports that Abbey Saint Sixtus, the Trappist monastery at Westvleteren in Belgium, might boost production of its much-cherished beer and sell it through supermarket channels led to the consumption of considerable bandwidth on beer discussion boards.

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