Is Mousemail.com nothing more than a high-tech crutch, a state-of-the-art substitute for old-fashioned good parenting?
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As a clear concession to her frailty, she's had the younger Sheryl Crow along as a crutch.
The PGA Tour has been searching for new stars to help wean itself off its Tiger Woods crutch.
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At Barajas, the Spanish felt no such need for the crutch of kitsch.
Smith hocks his lyrics over the music, generally without the crutch of melody.
It takes hours of rehearsal to deliver a captivating presentation without notes or the crutch of reading from slides.
But where there is no projected end to funding, subsidies stop being a catalyst, and start becoming a crutch.
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Nationwide, college students are using credit cards more and more as a financial crutch, according to student lending giant Sallie Mae.
While some people can start a company while still working a full-time job, Silbermann says that was a crutch for him.
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If these companies are as good as they boast they are, then they no longer need the crutch of state support.
"We had no offense in the first half, " coach Mike Woodson said, adding that he couldn't use Smith's absence as a crutch.
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The question of when to kick the crutch and go full force into your business is always there, waiting to be answered.
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Safety was "almost used as a crutch by the company, " Barron said.
For quite a few Christian churches, ties to the state are a vital crutch, without which they would be jaded and weak.
The Fed needs to be sure it does not become a crutch for insolvent financial firms, distorting credit allocation and risk taking.
Many investors will continue to want to use them as a crutch: witness money-market funds' success in fending off proposals to reduce their reliance on ratings.
When I start seeing kids draw their characters interacting with the pigeon, you see that the creative crutch is going away, and that they're really becoming authors.
Although most of Couche-Tard's U.S. stores now are ones with gas pumps, Bouchard thinks he learned to be a merchandiser in Canada by not having that crutch.
But it is likely that even Ireland, widely seen as the most successful bailout country, will need a euro-zone crutch as it gets off the bailout I.
Obviously not every use of CGI resulted in such dynamic effects work, and arguably computer-generated effects work became a crutch almost as quickly as it became a revelation.
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Technology is wonderful, but it can also be a crutch.
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Misell wonders if alcohol has become a crutch for friendship.
Today -- having virtually disappeared from the movies -- the cigarette is a sign of stunted growth, a crutch that Kym, Hathaway's character in "Rachel Getting Married, " can't put aside.
But the movie tidied and glossed over the deeply tragic undercurrent of Capote's story: an aimless bachelorette who uses sugar daddies as her income and a crutch to avoid the pain of her past.
Chen of Wired.com noted on Monday, the phrase has become an easy joke whenever mobile phones are discussed, and a hearty crutch for tech writers writing about a new application for the iPhone or other smart phones.
Right now, competing in the junior 10m hopscotch championships for the Athens bronze medallist would be a blessing, given the size of the crutch she's been hobbling around on for the last four days because of a heel injury.
Still, what if this ultimately leads to some weird social conditioning where, even as the child gets older, he simply can't do his business without having expensive electronics right there in front of him -- a serious mental crutch.
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